As Doug had reported, Debian packages for R 1.9.0 were uploaded last Monday. These are currently part of 'unstable', but can already be used on 'testing' into which they should migrate in a few days. Debian 'stable' is another matter. Neither Doug nor I has a stable system left that would be suitable for compiling R. So we would need a volunteer willing to work with us in order to build R 1.9.0 for that architecture. This would probably entail rewriting/simplifying debian/rules etc somewhat, and I would of course assist with that. Thanks, Dirk -- The relationship between the computed price and reality is as yet unknown. -- From the pac(8) manual page