Johannes Ranke sent the following at 11/08/2007 20:07:
Hi Chris, hi list * Chris Evans <chrishold at psyctc.org> [070802 09:00]:
Emmanuel Charpentier sent the following at 26/07/2007 15:18:
Dear sig-R-Debian I'd like to second Christophe Bonenfan's plea for an up-to-date Ubuntu 64 (and maybe an up-to-date Debian 64) repository(ies). There seems to
... and for me it's particularly Debian 64 stable. I'm more psychotherapist than dental surgeon ... but otherwise Emmanuel's self-description fits well!
Are there any problems with the amd64 backports for Debian stable on CRAN that I should know of?
Very belated reply to this. First of all, many, many thanks for all you're doing Johannes. I've only just had time to come back to using R on my server and I realised I was being a bit dumb and that the Debian upgrade policy and the remarkable generosity of the R project probably meant I'd have to tweak /etc/apt/sources.list and point at some source other than the main Debian stable one. Two points that may help others though: 1) The crucial information about how to do it is in CRAN, for my local depository it's at: http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/debian/ I think the frames system used by CRAN can make the URL you're at a bit unclear (Firefox shows I'm at http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/ as the key page is an frame on that page, one has just been jumped to a single page of http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/debian/ What it says there is that you need: "deb http://<favorite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian stable/" in your /etc/apt/sources.list I, perhaps stupidly, put in: "deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/bin/linux/debian stable/" and got an file not found error as it's actually: "deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/debian stable/" I think either the listing of the CRAN mirror or that line in that file need to be changed to make mapping clearer. 2) the other problem I hit was that not all the packages seem to have CRC values stored for them so you get a warning from dselect and have to realise that the default is _not_ to ignore it, to be more precise, I had to confirm twice in effect that was ignoring it. However, up and running like a dream and interestingly it immediately solved a problem I was having with sink(): clearly it had been a bug and had been fixed! Wonderful! Many thanks Johannes and sorry if I spread confusion! Very best all, Chris
Chris Evans <chris at psyctc.org> Skype: chris-psyctc Professor of Psychotherapy, Nottingham University; Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts PDD network; Research Programmes Director, Nottinghamshire NHS Trust; *If I am writing from one of those roles, it will be clear. Otherwise* *my views are my own and not representative of those institutions *