[Rd] About removing zlib from R-devel

[Simon Urbanek]

> On Mar 26, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.gabor at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> [...]
>> 
>> This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu
>>> 
>> 
>> The 'next version of R' will be 3.2.0, and the pre-3.2.0 sources include
>> zlib.
> 
> 
> My bad, sorry about that. I thought R-devel (trunk) will be released next,
> obviously not.
> 
> 
>> Whereas R-devel will not be released (as 3.3.x) until 2016.
>> 
> 
> Great, I just hope that Travis will upgrade before that. Although the end
> of life of 12.04 is April 2017.
> 

Yes, but with LTS you're locked in to the versions at the time so for 12.04 LTS that is R 2.14.1 so I'm not sure what R 3.x has anything to do with that. If you want to use any R more recent that R 2.14.1 on 12.04 then you have to supply your own binaries either way so this is a non-issue.

Cheers,
Simon




> Thanks,
> Gabor
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