R SIG Debian - Oct 2008 - R 2.8.0 for Debian etch

Dear all,

It is my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of R 2.8.0
for the current Debian stable release on CRAN. Source packages and
binaries for i386 and amd64 are at your disposal.

I also updated the README to include a short howto for using R 2.8.0 from
unstable on testing (lenny), which is currently frozen. This currently pulls
the current pcre from unstable, next to the current R packages.

By removing references to Rdevices.h, I was able to provide updated packages
of rkward 0.4.9a (i386 and amd64) and python-rpy (currently i386 only, amd64
will probably follow soon) as well. As usual, the latest recommended packages
are updated, as well as littler and RODBC.

Please report any problems you might encounter to this list.

Kind regards,

Johannes Ranke

-- 
Alumnus of the University of Bremen
http://www.uft.uni-bremen.de/chemie/ranke               jranke at uni-bremen.de

Dear Johannes,

Thanks for packaging this.

One minor (probable) bug, the /etc/R/Renviron.ucf-dist
contains the line

R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.7'}

Should that be 2.8 now?

Thanks,
Robert.

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 2:45, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> It is my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of R 2.8.0
> for the current Debian stable release on CRAN. Source packages and
> binaries for i386 and amd64 are at your disposal.
>
> I also updated the README to include a short howto for using R 2.8.0 from
> unstable on testing (lenny), which is currently frozen. This currently
> pulls the current pcre from unstable, next to the current R packages.
>
> By removing references to Rdevices.h, I was able to provide updated
> packages of rkward 0.4.9a (i386 and amd64) and python-rpy (currently i386
> only, amd64 will probably follow soon) as well. As usual, the latest
> recommended packages are updated, as well as littler and RODBC.
>
> Please report any problems you might encounter to this list.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Johannes Ranke
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Room V133  ph +61 2 4921 5548
Robert.King at newcastle.edu.au   http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/

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