A very belated reply, I'm afraid. I haven't previously packaged anything as a .deb, so it will take a little while. I always install and update R from source (which will almost always be in Scratchbox), and wouldn't have the time to make every package (a la Dirk Eddelbuettel). However, I will have a go at packaging R plus the recommended packages.

Cheers, David Duffy.

PS You can do quite of lot of standard statistical analysis in
my genetics package, Sib-pair, which is available (of course) for
the n900. The link can be found by scrolling down a little at

http://www.qimr.edu.au/davidD#sib-pair

Sib-pair's embedded Scheme interpreter includes a simple X-based graphic library (eggx), which I was pleased to find works well under Maemo (only a couple of calls were missing).

The latest version of Sib-pair, not currently compiled for the n900, adds ML fitting of the probit-normal mixed model (it already has a MCMC fitter).