downgrading to R 2.15.1-4 from sid beta 3.0.0
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:51:24 -0500,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 26 March 2013 at 07:35, Charles Plessy wrote:
Le Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:14:11PM -0500, Sebastian P. Luque a ?crit : > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:14:15 -0500,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
c) If you must downgrade, I would downgrade to 2.15.3-2 from CRAN rather than 2.15.1.
Great, doing that right now.
Hi Sebastian and everybody, Note (if it helps) that it is also available from snapshot.debian.org. http://snapshot.debian.org/package/r-base/
Ace -- thanks for the reminder about snapshot.d.o.
As for Seb's query about mass-updates: what you do from ESS, I do from shell via littler -- and yes, I usually control via lib.loc(). In this case we may want to force it everywhere... though I can't fully recommend to overwrite files owned by dpkg and apt-*. If it breaks, you keep the pieces.
And lastly, this is of course a bug in r-base as it could potentially conflict with its dependents. In practive, I don't see how we could do this easily so the best bet is probably to simply upgrade the .deb packages as fast as possible.
Dirk
My ~/bin/update.r is below, with some comments removed. A version is also in the littler sources and Debian package.
Thanks Dirk and Charles for the pointers. I'm now running a locally installed R 2.15.3 and packages until the dust settles with 3.0.0. I just noticed that many sid packages have now been rebuilt against R 3.0.0. Kudos to Dirk and the team! However, I don't understand how this works for packages that have an upstream Depends on R < 3.0.0. One of these is nlme, and yet r-cran-nlme has been rebuilt against R 3.0.0, even though it fails to load in this latest R with: R> library(nlme) Error: package ?nlme? was built before R 3.0.0: please re-install it What am I missing? Thanks,
Seb