[R] [OT] R 1.5 for debian woody

Christian T. Steigies cts at debian.org
Tue May 7 23:24:42 CEST 2002


On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 01:41:38PM -0700, Austin, Matt wrote:
> It should not matter if woody is frozen or not, I still compile binaries for

It matters insofar as R 1.50 will never make it into woody.

> "potato" on my machine. Someone with a woody installation (and a high-speed
> connection) would need to compile the binaries and submit them to CRAN.

And thats exactly what Dirk did. Thats why I suggested to install R from
unstable. And even if it depended on other packages (which it does not, I
installed it on a woody box with no problems), with the right apt
configuration, even those dependencies would be installed. But now we are
getting really OT...

Christian
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