R SIG Debian - Nov 2008 - Partial update of r packages possible?

Hello

I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 but I added in my source list some local mirror so I 
have possibility to upgrade to R 2.8. However, it seems that there is a 
dependency problem, (should install some liblapack libraries). This is 
not the problem, I can keep R 2.7.

However, even if I'm not able to install R 2.8, the other packages:
-r-base-html
-r-base-doc
-r-doc-info
-r-doc-html
-r-doc-pdf
-some packages: kernsmooth, mgcv,

are still suggested to be installed. Will that not create some conflict 
with package builded on R 2.8? Won't I have documentation for R 2.8 
running on R 2.7?

Thanks!

Matthieu

Matthieu,

Have you enabled backports in Ubuntu 8.04?  As per the ubuntu page on CRAN:

Installation and compilation of R or some its packages may require 
Ubuntu packages from the "backports" repositories. In particular, this
is the case for Tcl/Tk 8.5 on Gutsy and Hardy. Therefore, it is 
suggested to activate the backports repositories with an entry like

    deb http://<my.favorite.ubuntu.mirror>/ hardy-backports main 
restricted universe

in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. See 
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors for the list of Ubuntu 
mirrors.

This should solve the problem,
Michael

Matthieu Stigler wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm on Ubuntu 8.04 but I added in my source list some local mirror so I
> have possibility to upgrade to R 2.8. However, it seems that there is a 
> dependency problem, (should install some liblapack libraries). This is 
> not the problem, I can keep R 2.7.
> 
> However, even if I'm not able to install R 2.8, the other packages:
> -r-base-html
> -r-base-doc
> -r-doc-info
> -r-doc-html
> -r-doc-pdf
> -some packages: kernsmooth, mgcv,
> 
> are still suggested to be installed. Will that not create some conflict 
> with package builded on R 2.8? Won't I have documentation for R 2.8 
> running on R 2.7?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Matthieu
> 
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