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

[Edward Abraham]

This sounds like the path of least resistance. I am sure we can work around
it for two weeks :)

On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 at 00:03 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> 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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