[R-sig-Debian] Latest version of R from CRAN for utopic (14.10)

[Seb R]

CRAN mirrors are now up-to-date.
Thank you for these.
Sebastien.


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> On 11/05/2014 03:48 AM, Seb R wrote:
> >* Hi,
> *>* I am not in a hurry, but I would like to upgrade my ubuntu to utopic.
> *>* However, for now, the latest version of R that can be installed from CRAN
> *>* mirrors is not available for utopic.
> *>* Indeed, I am not sure I understand this sentence :
> *>>>* UBUNTU PACKAGES FOR R
> *>>* R packages for Ubuntu on i386 and amd64 are available for all stable
> *>>* Desktop releases of Ubuntu until their official end of life date. However,
> *>>* only the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release is fully supported. As of
> *>>* October 17, 2013, the supported releases are Trusty Tahr (14.04), Precise
> *>>* Pangolin (12.04; LTS), and Lucid Lynx (10.04; LTS).
> *>>>* Does this mean that from now only LTS version will get the latest version
> *>* of R, or the non-LTS will be partially supported ?
> *>* If, as I think I understand, non-LTS can also get latest R, is there any
> *>* schedule for utopic ?
> *>* I don't have any idea of how long and complicated it is for you developpers
> *>* to make it available after, I suppose, a stability testing period...
> *>* Thank you
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>
> Thanks for pointing this out.  The good news is that the new versions
> for R are available on my Launchpad PPA: https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter. <https://launchpad.net/%7Emarutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter.>  You can get
> them from that location right now.
>
> I will fix the CRAN issue this morning.  It will take around 24 hours
> for the changes to show up on all CRAN mirrors, so if you want the
> packages now, head to Launchpad.
>
> Michael
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