[R-sig-Debian] Outdated r-base-core when installing on Ubuntu 14.04

[Johannes Ranke]

Am Montag, 21. März 2016, 13:31:44 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> On 21 March 2016 at 13:18, Matthew Simpson wrote:
> | It may be significant that my chromebook has an ARM processor. I don't
> | know
> | about the details of how this works, but perhaps some pieces of the R
> | install haven't been ported to the appropriate architecture?
> 
> Bahh. I am clearly not awake.  Should have realized that.

Neither was I.

> 
> That is why you had r-doc-html, r-recommended, ... etc which are binary=all.
> On CRAN you will /only/ find i386 and amd64.  On the Ubuntu PPAs you /may/
> find arm builds as Ubuntu supports them for their tablet plans etc pp.

I am providing arm binaries for Debian wheezy and Debian jessie on CRAN, maybe 
this would be an option?

Cheers, Johannes

> 
> As such, the Dockerfile I sent you is more relevant than the CRAN README.
> 
> Good luck, Dirk