[R-sig-Debian] Updating R 3.4.0 for ubuntu

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 15 June 2017 at 04:42, Edward Abraham wrote:
| When R upgraded to 3.4.0, a bug was introduced into the Sweave command (it
| returned an exit code of 1, even on success),  which has broken our
| reporting make files. This has been fixed in the source (thanks to Martin
| Mächler). I am using R on ubuntu (xenial) and was wondering if the 3.4.0
| binary could be updated with the patched version, so that the patch flows
| through. This will prevent the bug from affecting other users.
| 
| Alternatively, I have noticed the instructions at the bottom of this page.
| If there are no plans to update the released binaries, then I can work my
| way through the instructions for installing from the patched branch.
| https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
| 
| Sorry to bother you with this, and thanks very much for all your work on
| keeping R  packaged,

I would have said "maybe, when we get a moment" but given that R 3.4.1 has in
fact been announced for June 30 [1], I think we can maybe skip this and just
wait?

Dirk

[1] http://developer.r-project.org/

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