R help - Apr 2018 - Information about compatibility R

Hi everyone.

I need an information about compatibility of R and Suse Linux. I have installed
R 3.2.1 in Suse Linux 11 SP4 and I would like know if it?s compatible the
upgrade for the new version 3.4.4 in my Suse release? This information?s about
version R and linux version have in site or other place?



Thanks.



Marcos Fiorini

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Dear Marcos,

The current Version of opensuse Linux is Leap 42.3 (when I'm still right).
Probably you should upgrade your Linux system before installing one of the most
recent versions of R.

Best
Albrecht

-- 
  Albrecht Kauffmann
  alkauffm at fastmail.fm

Am Mi, 11. Apr 2018, um 17:31, schrieb Marcos Fiorini:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> I need an information about compatibility of R and Suse Linux. I have 
> installed R 3.2.1 in Suse Linux 11 SP4 and I would like know if its 
> compatible the upgrade for the new version 3.4.4 in my Suse release? 
> This informations about version R and linux version have in site or 
> other place?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Marcos Fiorini
> 
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> 
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Hi,

your question is nearly impossible to answer without actual testing of
your existing pipelines.  But from my soon 20-year usage of R, it's
clear to me that the R Core Team strives to keep things backward
compatible as far as they can.  The NEWS file:

  https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/NEWS.html

contains useful information on what's been updated in each release -
you can inspect that one from your own perspective.  There are also
12,000 packages on CRAN that are tested on old-release, current
release, and developers version of R.  Many of these packages rarely
gets updated, which indicates that these package work across a large
number of R versions (and platforms).

FYI, R 3.5.0 is being released on April 23, 2018.  You should aim to
install that version.   Also, on Linux it's not too hard to install
multiple R versions in parallel when you install from source.  Then
you can go back and forth between version whenever you'd like.

/Henrik



On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Marcos Fiorini <marcosfmaia at
hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I need an information about compatibility of R and Suse Linux. I have
installed R 3.2.1 in Suse Linux 11 SP4 and I would like know if it?s compatible
the upgrade for the new version 3.4.4 in my Suse release? This information?s
about version R and linux version have in site or other place?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Marcos Fiorini
>
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>
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
>