downgrading to R 2.15.1-4 from sid beta 3.0.0
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:14:15 -0500,
Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 25 March 2013 at 12:01, Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
Hi, I'm using sid, and this morning I carelessly upgraded R core packages, which are currently at the beta 3.0.0 version. I hadn't read that packages need to be re-built to be used with this beta version. I'd happily do that locally (via 'install.packages') for those that haven't yet been re-built in Debian, but some just don't allow that, notably nlme which has a Depends on R (? 2.14.0), R (< 3.0.0)... So I decided to just downgrade the base packages, temporarily remove the r-cran-* dependendants, and then install nlme (and others) locally until the April release of 3.0.0 and the rest of the packages get rebuilt in Debian. Is there a more efficient way to deal with this when a new R requires such rebuilds in Debian?
a) You are on unstable... So sorry for the breakage but that is why 'production' should run testing or stable.
I know, and am usually more careful than that with unstable...
b) There is a simple update.package() invocation you can do, it will update all you packages (in /usr/lib/R as well as /usr/local/lib/R); it needs an argument you need to set...
Indeed, and (off topic) I wrote a function `ess-rutils-update-pkgs' in ess-rutils, to make this easy from iESS mode. However, wont't this break the Debian packages placed in /usr/lib/R, when the 'lib.loc' argument matches this (this would need normally need super user access)?
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. Thanks,
Seb