[R-sig-Debian] install R 2.8 on Debian etch?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 3 June 2009 at 11:09, Sweeney, Jeff wrote:
| I understand. I need 2.8 for compatibility with another application 

Starting with S and ending in PSS, maybe?  ;-)

| so I'll build it.

I'd still go for apt-get source r-base, copy the debian/ directory you get
that way to your 2.8.0 source (or 2.8.1, rather -- why not use known bug
fixes...) and then run 'dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -tc -rfakeroot' over it [
these options mean no gpg signing of anything, clean and use fakeroot for
faked su permissions while building ]  One day I write a proper document on
that process...

Dirk

| Thanks,
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org] 
| Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 11:02 AM
| To: Sweeney, Jeff
| Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
| Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] install R 2.8 on Debian etch?
| 
| 
| On 3 June 2009 at 10:28, Sweeney, Jeff wrote:
| | How do I install R 2.8 on Debian etch? Are there mirrors for older versions of R? Where are they?
| 
| The porting volunteers generally support the newest versions (e.g. right now
| 2.9.0) on the most recent releases, e.g. stable (codename 'lenny') and
| testing (codename 'squeeze').
| 
| But if you want a neither-current-nor-from-distro version on an older
| release, you are outside the supported matrix of disto and R version and
| hence on your own.  
| 
| Now, it is not hard to locally build a package based on the packaging sources
| (esp if you know a little about Unix and/or Debian). If you want to try that,
| we could probably walk you trough that.
| 
| Otherwise, you can also try the lenny version of R 2.9.0 plus whichever
| library updates your etch system needs.
| 
| Hth, Dirk
| 
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