[R-sig-Debian] Can't install R 2.15 and r-recommended on Ubuntu

[Johannes Ranke]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:15:29AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 7 November 2013 at 17:56, Kirill Müller wrote:
> | Thanks. Are there any pitfalls when using this on Ubuntu?
> 
> Every official recommendation is "don't do that". Doing it for a CI box is
> silly.

Talking about silly, I just read up a bit on what travis and CI are. If
installing R 2.15 with recommended packages from the CRAN Ubuntu repos
is so difficult, I do not see the point in using that as a platform for
testing R packages, or am I missing something here?

Johannes
 
> It would be cleaner to just build yourself a one-off 2.15 deb package, wget
> it onto the travis host and use it.
> 
> Dirk 
> 
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