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

[Johannes Ranke]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 08:16:29AM +0100, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 7. November 2013, 23:46:47 schrieb Kirill Müller:
> > On 11/07/2013 11:35 PM, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > https://github.com/craigcitro/r-travis is a recent effort to integrate R
> > with Travis. There are some obstacles to overcome, but it works quite
> > nicely already. It's free, it supports Ubuntu and OS X, and it
> > integrates with GitHub like a charm. May sound silly, but that's reason
> > enough for me.
> 
> Ah, you misunderstood - I meant I was silly because I did not know what Travis 
> and a CI platform are and had to read up. I think r-travis is an interesting 
> project indeed. Of course there is e.g. r-forge, but their build system has 
> some lack from time to time, they only test on Linux and Windows, and it does 
> not integrate with github. I have to say I am wondering if travis-ci.org would 
> be able to handle all the R packages on github though...
> 
> > Do you know a CI platform where testing R packages would work "out of
> > the box"? Or perhaps a better suggestion on installing R + recommended?
> 
> Well, is Debian stable supported by travis? This would be a quick and easily 
> automated way to get R 2.15 + recommended on Linux, without the need to set up 
> you own repository.

Oops, I should say oldstable, time is flying, wheezy has been released a
while ago... However, squeeze will still be around for a while.

> Johannes
> 
> > 
> > 
> > -Kirill
> 
> 
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