[R-sig-Debian] R 3.1.2 for Debian jessie/testing available on CRAN

[Johannes Ranke]

Dear Mathieu, dear list,

if you have successfully set up apt pinning for R packages, then you have the 
most up-to date Debian packages for R at your fingertips.

I set up the repository for Debian jessie so people do not have to use apt 
pinning in order to get Debian 3.1.2 on jessie. Plus, when jessie is released, 
the repository is already there, and after the release of jessie it is likely 
that at some point the binary sid packages will not be installable on jessie.

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Donnerstag, 26. Februar 2015, 08:55:20 schrieb Mathieu Basille:
> Dear Johannes,
> 
> Thanks a lot for this work! I have to admit that I'm now a little bit
> puzzled, though. I'm running Debian Jessie (current testing) with great
> satisfaction. When it comes to R, I simply have the SID repository
> (official Debian) enabled, with some pining to get only R-related stuff.
> 
> Now, I'm not sure to understand the benefit of using the CRAN repository
> for Jessie—I feel like I'm missing the point. I understand that these are
> backports from Debian repositories, so I guess that jessie-cran3 is
> probably synced with Debian-SID from time to time, right? (which means it
> is essentially the same, with maybe a slight additional delay)
> 
> After a quick check of essential packages (in the Debian and R sense) for
> me, I found out that Debian-SID is always the best choice, providing the
> latest stable packages in all cases, while Debian-Jessie doesn't, and
> jessie-cran3 is somewhat in between. For example (the comparison works for
> version numbers):
> 
> r-base: Debian-SID = jessie-cran3 > Debian-Jessie
> survival: Debian-SID > jessie-cran3 = Debian-Jessie
> Matrix: Debian-SID = jessie-cran3 > Debian-Jessie
> MASS: Debian-SID > jessie-cran3 > Debian-Jessie
> 
> So my question is: now that the Jessie repository in CRAN is up (thanks
> again!), what would be the preferred way to handle R-related stuff on
> Debian Jessie?
> 
> Thanks for any clarification!
> Mathieu.
> 
> Le 01/02/2015 15:48, Johannes Ranke a écrit :
> >> The repository for jessie is in the works - but don't expect it to be up
> >> before next weekend.
> > 
> > It's there now.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> > Johannes
> > 
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