[R-sig-Debian] Partial update of r packages possible?

[Matthieu Stigler]

Michael

Thank you for showing me this point! I was not aware of it and this will 
surely facilitate further update.
Nevertheless, my wish I actually to to update (the GUI I use, Rkward, 
breaks with R 2.8), so my actual question was why the packages 
r-doc-info and others (listed above) are suggested even if R 2.8 can't 
be installed, and wheter making this partial update (packages but not R) 
will not cause problems (packages build on nuwer version, docs for 2.8 
runing on 2.7...)

What do you think?

mat

Michael Rutter a écrit :
> Matthieu,
>
> Have you enabled backports in Ubuntu 8.04?  As per the ubuntu page on 
> CRAN:
>
> Installation and compilation of R or some its packages may require 
> Ubuntu packages from the "backports" repositories. In particular, this 
> is the case for Tcl/Tk 8.5 on Gutsy and Hardy. Therefore, it is 
> suggested to activate the backports repositories with an entry like
>
>    deb http://<my.favorite.ubuntu.mirror>/ hardy-backports main 
> restricted universe
>
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. See 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors for the list of Ubuntu 
> mirrors.
>
> This should solve the problem,
> Michael
>
> Matthieu Stigler wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 but I added in my source list some local mirror so 
>> I have possibility to upgrade to R 2.8. However, it seems that there 
>> is a dependency problem, (should install some liblapack libraries). 
>> This is not the problem, I can keep R 2.7.
>>
>> However, even if I'm not able to install R 2.8, the other packages:
>> -r-base-html
>> -r-base-doc
>> -r-doc-info
>> -r-doc-html
>> -r-doc-pdf
>> -some packages: kernsmooth, mgcv,
>>
>> are still suggested to be installed. Will that not create some 
>> conflict with package builded on R 2.8? Won't I have documentation 
>> for R 2.8 running on R 2.7?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Matthieu
>>
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