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

[BooBoo]

You can point mint update at the debian testing repository if you want a 
true rolling update (and know how to fix things when they break) or at 
the mint repositories if you want the Mint folks to gather up and test 
out things for a month before they pass the updates on to you. The Mint 
debian experience is about the same as Ubuntu 10.10 - you can do real 
work if you want or just fool around. I think it is a great platform for 
using R and RStudio/StatET.

Tom




On 7/18/2011 1:09 PM, denis brion wrote:
> According to
> http://landorsplace.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/weekend-wrap-up/,
> Mint LMDE can be seen as a real debian , but with a ca-one month lag (__if__
> everything is OK, and __if__ they keep their choices). They add more user
> friendly (at least they claim) installers and interfaces, which are not likely
> to interfere with R or its dependencies, and non-free drivers (which ere not
> likely...) .... Their intended audience is likely to be beginners (but, as R is
> more difficult than bash scripting and OS installing, is Mint -rather meant for
> video/music playing, without too many efforts- necessary?).
>
>
>
>
> ----- Message d'origine ----
> De : BooBoo<booboo at gforcecable.com>
> À : Dirk Eddelbuettel<edd at debian.org>
> Cc : r-sig-debian at r-project.org
> Envoyé le : Mer 13 juillet 2011, 18h 47min 54s
> Objet : Re: [R-sig-Debian] R 2.13.1 on Debian Systems?
>
> 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
>
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