[R-sig-Debian] Please be careful with R 3.4.2 upgrades via CRAN, launchpad, ...

[Michael Rutter]

Corrected packages are now on the RRutter PPA (
https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter) and soon on CRAN
mirrors.

If you have any issues or questions, please let me know.

Michael

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> So I now have this on my laptop
>
>    edd at brad:~$ apt-cache policy r-base-core
>    r-base-core:
>      Installed: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
>      Candidate: 3.4.2-1zesty0.1
>      Version table:
>     *** 3.4.2-1zesty0.1 500
>            500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/edd/misc/ubuntu zesty/main amd64
> Packages
>            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>         3.4.1-2zesty0 500
>            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
>         3.4.1-1zesty0 500
>            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
>         3.4.0-1zesty 500
>            500 http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu zesty/ Packages
>         3.3.2-1 500
>            500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/universe amd64
> Packages
>    edd at brad:~$
>
> and I have launched rebuilds for xenial (16.04) and trusty (14.04) which
> should complete, possibly after another level of adjustments.
>
> These use r-api-3 and work for the "here and now". Use
>
>     sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:edd/misc
>
> We may propagate these for to the usual 'rrutter' and then CRAN repos too,
> and will take it from there to figure out how to get r-api-3.4.
>
> I'm sorry for the disruption. My hand was a little forced but I should have
> considered these consequences too.
>
> Dirk
>
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