Message-ID: <20131107223521.GA4095@stiller.fritz.box>
Date: 2013-11-07T22:35:21Z
From: Johannes Ranke
Subject: Can't install R 2.15 and r-recommended on Ubuntu
In-Reply-To: <21115.51889.497811.433587@max.nulle.part>
On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:15:29AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 7 November 2013 at 17:56, Kirill M?ller wrote:
> | Thanks. Are there any pitfalls when using this on Ubuntu?
>
> Every official recommendation is "don't do that". Doing it for a CI box is
> silly.
Talking about silly, I just read up a bit on what travis and CI are. If
installing R 2.15 with recommended packages from the CRAN Ubuntu repos
is so difficult, I do not see the point in using that as a platform for
testing R packages, or am I missing something here?
Johannes
> It would be cleaner to just build yourself a one-off 2.15 deb package, wget
> it onto the travis host and use it.
>
> Dirk
>
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> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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