Hi all! Did I miss something or is it just a temporary problem? Where has the Debian respository http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages resp. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ gone? I tried it for about the last 7 hours. $ apt-get update [...] Err http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages 404 Not Found [...] Failed to fetch http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found Greetings, Christoph
Where has the Debian respository gone?
10 messages · Christoph Bier, Chris Evans, Dirk Eddelbuettel
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:53:42PM +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
Hi all! Did I miss something or is it just a temporary problem? Where has the Debian respository http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages resp. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ gone? I tried it for about the last 7 hours.
[...] It has been turned off by the CRAN masters as the content had slipped further and further behind the Debian content. Current R and CRAN packages are on the Debian archives; you can install these on testing too. To the best of my knowledge, there are no backports of current R and Debian CRAN packages to Debian stable. Hope this helps, Dirk
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On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:35:27PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:53:42PM +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
Hi all! Did I miss something or is it just a temporary problem? Where has the Debian respository http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages resp. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ gone? I tried it for about the last 7 hours.
[...] It has been turned off by the CRAN masters as the content had slipped further and further behind the Debian content. Current R and CRAN packages are on the Debian archives; you can install these on testing too. To the best of my knowledge, there are no backports of current R and Debian CRAN packages to Debian stable.
Upon re-reading this, I should clarify that in this context "CRAN packages" refers to the several dozen CRAN packages that are in Debian; the list is growing but still far from exhaustive. Dirk
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Dirk Eddelbuettel schrieb am 15.11.2004 02:35 [CRAN Debian respository]
It has been turned off by the CRAN masters as the content had slipped further and further behind the Debian content. Current R and CRAN packages are on the Debian archives; you can install these on testing too. To the best of my knowledge, there are no backports of current R and Debian CRAN packages to Debian stable.
Ok, thanks! Is there a list this fact was mentioned on?
Greetings,
Christoph
Dirk Eddelbuettel schrieb am 15.11.2004 04:12
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:35:27PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
[...]
Current R and CRAN packages are on the Debian archives; you can install these on testing too. To the best of my knowledge, there are no backports of current R and Debian CRAN packages to Debian stable.
Upon re-reading this, I should clarify that in this context "CRAN packages" refers to the several dozen CRAN packages that are in Debian;
Thanks for the clarification. That's how I already understood it.
the list is growing but still far from exhaustive.
Yes, I saw it on the Ubuntu machine of my girl friend (I changed her
Debian Woody/Sarge some weeks ago to Warty), when I used synaptic
for the first time; didn't know, that there was so many CRAN
packages for Debian! Up to now I always installed packages from
within R by install.packages("foo"). Has one of these methods
advantages compared with the other?
Greetings,
Christoph
2 days later
Hello Dirk,
Monday, November 15, 2004, 1:35:27 AM, you wrote:
DE> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:53:42PM +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
Hi all! Did I miss something or is it just a temporary problem? Where has the Debian respository http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages resp. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ gone? I tried it for about the last 7 hours.
DE> Current R and CRAN packages are on the Debian archives; you can install
DE> these on testing too. To the best of my knowledge, there are no backports
DE> of current R and Debian CRAN packages to Debian stable.
I'm a bit puzzled. I had
deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian woody main
in /etc/apt/sources.list and had hoped, perhaps rather unwisely, that
this would look after the transition from 1.8.0 on my internet server (Debian
stable) where it serves up some cgi-bin work. (Most of my R work is
on a Win2k machine, much though I'd like to go Debian all the way,
that isn't possible for my main job in near future.)
Is there an easy way of upgrading R on a Debian stable machine? I
don't want to move off stable as the security side of that server is
too important. I also don't really want to compile it myself if I can
avoid that, the server is pretty old iron and that might back up all
the Email stuff it does.
Advice anyone?
TIA,
Chris
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:52:38AM +0000, stats wrote:
Hello Dirk, Monday, November 15, 2004, 1:35:27 AM, you wrote: DE> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:53:42PM +0100, Christoph Bier wrote:
Hi all! Did I miss something or is it just a temporary problem? Where has the Debian respository http://cran.r-project.org woody/main Packages resp. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ gone? I tried it for about the last 7 hours.
DE> Current R and CRAN packages are on the Debian archives; you can install
DE> these on testing too. To the best of my knowledge, there are no backports
DE> of current R and Debian CRAN packages to Debian stable.
I'm a bit puzzled. I had
deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian woody main
in /etc/apt/sources.list and had hoped, perhaps rather unwisely, that
this would look after the transition from 1.8.0 on my internet server (Debian
stable) where it serves up some cgi-bin work. (Most of my R work is
on a Win2k machine, much though I'd like to go Debian all the way,
that isn't possible for my main job in near future.)
Is there an easy way of upgrading R on a Debian stable machine? I
don't want to move off stable as the security side of that server is
too important. I also don't really want to compile it myself if I can
avoid that, the server is pretty old iron and that might back up all
the Email stuff it does.
Advice anyone?
More than advice, we need a volunteer to "backport" the current R package(s) for Debian to the Debian stable distribution. As I said, testing and unstable are taken care of (and yes, testing is still lagging because of the now much more formal interdependence of packages; R 2.0.* will appears once all dependent packages are available on all architectures) Dirk
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Hello Dirk,
Thursday, November 18, 2004, 3:18:40 PM, you wrote:
DE> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:52:38AM +0000, stats wrote:
I'm a bit puzzled. I had
deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian woody main
in /etc/apt/sources.list and had hoped, perhaps rather unwisely, that
this would look after the transition from 1.8.0 on my internet server (Debian
stable) where it serves up some cgi-bin work. (Most of my R work is
on a Win2k machine, much though I'd like to go Debian all the way,
that isn't possible for my main job in near future.)
Is there an easy way of upgrading R on a Debian stable machine? I
don't want to move off stable as the security side of that server is
too important. I also don't really want to compile it myself if I can
avoid that, the server is pretty old iron and that might back up all
the Email stuff it does.
Advice anyone?
DE> More than advice, we need a volunteer to "backport" the current R package(s) DE> for Debian to the Debian stable distribution. As I said, testing and DE> unstable are taken care of (and yes, testing is still lagging because of the DE> now much more formal interdependence of packages; R 2.0.* will appears once DE> all dependent packages are available on all architectures) I'm sure this is in itself proof that I'm not the person to do it but can you say a bit more about what's involved Dirk? I run a pretty low powered Debian stable server on i386 hardware (an athlon if I remember rightly) with pretty much the standard packages, GCC, perl etc. and I'm not completely stupid. However, debugging compiler and make complaints is really not my area of competence and I do wonder about the likely load on the machine and on my time. In the not too distant future this machine should be replaced with a much more powerful one and a somewhat more powerful backup machine so hardware may not be a long term problem. Any chance I can be useful? Could I team up with someone who really knows what s/he is doing but doesn't use Debian stable and work this together? Let me know, I'd love to put something very direct back into the R project. Chris
Chris,
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:21:04PM +0000, Chris Evans wrote:
DE> More than advice, we need a volunteer to "backport" the current R package(s) DE> for Debian to the Debian stable distribution. As I said, testing and DE> unstable are taken care of (and yes, testing is still lagging because of the DE> now much more formal interdependence of packages; R 2.0.* will appears once DE> all dependent packages are available on all architectures) I'm sure this is in itself proof that I'm not the person to do it but can you say a bit more about what's involved Dirk? I run a pretty low
[..]
Any chance I can be useful? Could I team up with someone who really knows what s/he is doing but doesn't use Debian stable and work this together? Let me know, I'd love to put something very direct back into the R project.
Thanks a bunch -- I'll follow up off-list! Dirk
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Dirk Eddelbuettel schrieb am 19.11.2004 00:05
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:21:04PM +0000, Chris Evans wrote:
[...]
Any chance I can be useful? Could I team up with someone who really knows what s/he is doing but doesn't use Debian stable and work this together? Let me know, I'd love to put something very direct back into the R project.
Thanks a bunch -- I'll follow up off-list!
Include me, if you want. I have very less time at the moment (and
the near future) but maybe I can be useful, too (e.g. in compiling).
Regards,
Christoph