[R-sig-Debian] R 2.13.1 on Debian Systems?

[BooBoo]

On 7/13/2011 12:35 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 13 July 2011 at 18:17, Carlos J. Gil Bellosta  wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | You can check at
> | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/squeeze-cran/ that it has
> | not.
>
> You can check the Debian 'package page' here:
>
> 	http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/r-base.html
>
> R 2.13.1 was uploaded to Debian unstable the morning of its release.
>
> What is available on CRAN is a supplementary service which (for Debian) is
> provided by Johannes as explained in the README there.0
>
> | 2011/7/13 BooBoo<booboo at gforcecable.com>:
> |>  I am running 32-bit and a 64-bit Linux Mint Debian systems and the latest R
> |>  has not yet appeared whereas it has on a Xubuntu box. Is the Debian update
> |>  out yet?
>
> So why are you asking about Debian when you are running Mint.  Are you mixing
> binaries from different distribution?
>
> Dirk
>
I don't know much, but I know not to mix binaries from different 
distributions. I am using Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), which is a 
very nice distribution that is real Debian AFAIK. I have synaptic 
pointed at the UC Berkeley mirror, which does not appear to have 2.13.1 yet.

Tom