[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu Lucid, R 2.14.2, and ggplot2

[Johannes Ranke]

On Monday 23 April 2012 23:10:36 Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > > Dear Dirk, dear all,
> > > 
> > > > | Perhaps an indication that this cran2deb stuff is very green?
> > > > 
> > > > It has been inoperational for years as you could have noticed by
> > > > looking at the version numbers of the packages you were getting,
> > > > relative to CRAN.
> > > > 
> > > > Use http://debian-r.debian.net, which is a pretty new, well done
> > > > "reboot" of the same idea.
> > > 
> > > This indeed looks nice - I wonder how hard it would be to make the
> > > Debian stable/squeeze variant work...
> > 
> > I need to fix a few things, and then I will be doing the rebuilds for
> > stable too. Probably two weeks or so.
> 
> Builds for stable are now happening, and should be flowing into the
> archives in the next few days. Unfortunately, a lot of the newer
> packages require R >= 2.14.0 in order to function, so they'll be
> missing. If there's significant need for older packages (or if I end
> up needing some) I may backport R 2.14.0 and add an additional
> squeeze-backports archive, but I have no firm plans to do that yet.

Don, 

this sounds great! But why don't you use the R 2.15.0 backport to squeeze on 
CRAN? Am I missing something?

Johannes

> 
> 
> Don Armstrong