[R-sig-Debian] R 2.8.0 for Debian etch

[Robert King]

Dear Johannes,

Thanks for packaging this.

One minor (probable) bug, the /etc/R/Renviron.ucf-dist
contains the line

R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7'}

Should that be 2.8 now?

Thanks,
Robert.

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 2:45, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of R 2.8.0
> for the current Debian stable release on CRAN. Source packages and
> binaries for i386 and amd64 are at your disposal.
>
> I also updated the README to include a short howto for using R 2.8.0 from
> unstable on testing (lenny), which is currently frozen. This currently
> pulls the current pcre from unstable, next to the current R packages.
>
> By removing references to Rdevices.h, I was able to provide updated
> packages of rkward 0.4.9a (i386 and amd64) and python-rpy (currently i386
> only, amd64 will probably follow soon) as well. As usual, the latest
> recommended packages are updated, as well as littler and RODBC.
>
> Please report any problems you might encounter to this list.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Johannes Ranke

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