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

[Scott Smith]

Yeah, it seems like maybe the cran2deb stuff is not quite ready for prime time?

It's a shame because we are making .deb packages for everything we develop internally, and I'd like to be able to indicate where R or some subset of it is a dependency.

On Mar 22, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote:

> Hi Scott,
> 
> I like apt-get and dpkg.
> 
> They made administering my Debian box much more
> convenient.
> 
> However, I was surprised some time ago to see that
> Debian's package management technology was failing
> to keep up with new releases of R packages.
> 
> It seemed to me that R's packages were evolving
> faster than Debian's archives were updated.
> 
> I had to used R's built in package management
> tool.
> 
> If I recall correctly, it's named something like
> update_package() or update_packages() and
> it downloads new R code from CRAN.
> 
> If you haven't already considered R's built in
> package management, you may want to try it.
> 
> I hope that helps,
> Kingsley