Updating R 3.4.0 for ubuntu
This sounds like the path of least resistance. I am sure we can work around it for two weeks :)
On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 at 00:03 Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
On 15 June 2017 at 04:42, Edward Abraham wrote: | When R upgraded to 3.4.0, a bug was introduced into the Sweave command (it | returned an exit code of 1, even on success), which has broken our | reporting make files. This has been fixed in the source (thanks to Martin | M?chler). I am using R on ubuntu (xenial) and was wondering if the 3.4.0 | binary could be updated with the patched version, so that the patch flows | through. This will prevent the bug from affecting other users. | | Alternatively, I have noticed the instructions at the bottom of this page. | If there are no plans to update the released binaries, then I can work my | way through the instructions for installing from the patched branch. | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ | | Sorry to bother you with this, and thanks very much for all your work on | keeping R packaged, I would have said "maybe, when we get a moment" but given that R 3.4.1 has in fact been announced for June 30 [1], I think we can maybe skip this and just wait? Dirk [1] http://developer.r-project.org/ -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org