Message-ID: <19300.45743.168641.401819@ron.nulle.part>
Date: 2010-01-30T22:29:03Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Clash between r-cran-vr and r-cran-mass
In-Reply-To: <201001302135.25673.kevin@dotmon.com>
On 30 January 2010 at 21:35, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
| On Saturday 30 January 2010 17:18, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > It's a somewhat long story:
| <snip>
|
| Thanks for the explanation - that makes it clear. I understand the caveats
| with Ubuntu, but so far everything seems to work - then again, since I'm a
| newbie with R, I just might not be aware that it isn't working :-) If there
| are problems, I will uninstall the cran2deb packages and go back to
| R:install.packages().
It may well work, esp for package that do not contain object code. For rest,
it may or may not work. Mostly it will -- but Canonical once made a strategic
decision to _not_ be binary compatible with Debian so if it breaks, blame'em.
Dirk
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