[R-sig-Debian] Clash between r-cran-vr and r-cran-mass

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 30 January 2010 at 21:35, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
| On Saturday 30 January 2010 17:18, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > It's a somewhat long story:
| <snip>
| 
| Thanks for the explanation - that makes it clear.  I understand the caveats 
| with Ubuntu, but so far everything seems to work - then again, since I'm a 
| newbie with R, I just might not be aware that it isn't working :-)  If there 
| are problems, I will uninstall the cran2deb packages and go back to 
| R:install.packages().

It may well work, esp for package that do not contain object code. For rest,
it may or may not work. Mostly it will -- but Canonical once made a strategic
decision to _not_ be binary compatible with Debian so if it breaks, blame'em.

Dirk

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