[R-pkg-devel] "try" malfunctions on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS, R-release, GCC

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 February 2020 at 09:03, profjohn wrote:
| While there are huge benefits to upgrading, there is pain. It's that

We have a dedicated mailing list r-sig-debian for use of R on operating
systems that are .deb based. It is low volume, and has high signal / noise.
So I would cordially invite everybody who thinks he or she could benefit from
asking questions there to sign up.

My question was indirectly answered by Spencer: he actually did not make an
_explicit_ choice to use 16.04. He used a helper function dispatching to a
service still running the rather old release.

Dirk

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