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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 26 February 2015 at 08:55, Mathieu Basille wrote:
| 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.

Sure. Nobody prevents you from doing that. That "merely" is a more general
but also more advanced option.

The CRAN backports for Ubuntu and Debian complement the offering by their
respective distros _in the same version_.

| 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?

For normal users: Use this repo.  

For power users: Whatever. As always.

Dirk

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