[R-sig-Debian] ess 17.11-3 won't install on Ubuntu 16.04

[Eva Myers]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 10:43:52AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 20 August 2018 at 15:29, Eva Myers wrote:
> | Hello,
> | Attempting to install ess (17.11-3xenial0) on our Ubuntu 16.04 systems
> | is failing with an error message.
> 
> This can happen. I (with my Debian hat on) had to make 17.11-3 because the
> ess package did not behave with Debian untable and Emacs 26.2. It does now.
> 
> Changes can have side effects. Turn out that in this case 16.04 is
> affected. Your easiest recourse would be to not use this package, but the
> (much older) ESS from 16.04, or an older release (and then put it on 'hold'
> to supress updates).
> 
> There will be a newer elpa-ess which may work for you (or not). You could try
> these:
> 
>   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/elpa-ess_17.11-4_all.deb
>   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/tmp/ess_17.11-4_all.deb
> 
> and you need both. "Works for me" on 18.04.  Not tested on 16.04. YMMV.

Works for me on 16.04, thank you so much!
Eva.