[R-sig-Debian] Unable to install R 3.1.2 on Debian:Testing

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 January 2015 at 14:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| Ok. I will set up a new toolchain for testing then. We need this for Rocker
| all the time---eg I just put something marvelous into littler which I need in
| Rocker, yet Debian is frozen with no timeline for release. And it is silly
| for us to keep rebuilding all these things when building containers.
| 
| The three of us should (will !!) work something out that will allow us proper
| testing support via CRAN, which we can fold into your existing mirror
| structure.  Plan?

Or maybe we just stick with "testing" and set up "unstable" via apt pinning
for surgical per-package updates. One of many HOWTOs:

   http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

I've used this quite a bit in the past and it "Just Work (TM)".

Dirk

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