[R] R: Debian package and source

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

"David Andel" <andel at ifi.unizh.ch> writes:

> Hi
> 
> As Dirk said before, if you're running unstable, the official
> version is surely the best. If you're running testing though, you're
> probably better off using the apt sources listed in
> http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ReadMe since there are
> some dependency hassles with installing the unstable version on
> testing (at least I got tired of going through all the dependency
> stuff).
> 

BTW, is there a good reason to keep the "testing" distribution at
1.6.0? I would assume that at least you'd want to include patches up
to 1.6.2 rather than ship a version with known bugs. Not wanting to
get into the 1.7.x series is understandable, of course.

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