On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 30 October 2009 at 13:25, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> | Hi
> |
> | I upgraded to R 2.10.0, and I encounter a problem with some packages on
> R,
> | installed via apt-get..
> |
> | They are still compiled by 2.9 and give me an warning when I load the
> | packages. Will these packages be recompiled with R 2.10, or should I
> rather
> | switch to self-compiling?
>
> For the Debian packages I am trying to get all maintainers to rebuild their
> packages.   I can't speak for Ubuntu but it may require waiting for the
> next
> release or switching to local packages.
>

Thanks for the info, Dirk. I will consider the options.

In the same line: how is the project, of making all packages on CRAN
available in an Ubuntu repository going on? Any eta?

Notice, though, that this is just a warning. The help() system may be
> affected, but functionality of the package should not be affected.
>

True - I realized that after reading the warning for the 5th time, but
still, it is annoying, and I prefer to work without warnings.

Cheers,

Rainer


>
> Dirk
>
> --
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>



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