R SIG Debian - Apr 2013 - R 3.0.0 and Raring Ringtail (Ubuntu 13.04)

New .deb packages for R 3.0.0 on Raring Ringtail (13.04) are available 
on both [CRAN](http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/) and my 
[Launchpad PPA](https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter).  Some 
notes for this release.

- The initial build for Raring Ringtail did not come with Tcl/Tk being 
supported.  This issue has been addressed and the current release 
supports Tcl/Tk.

- Due to a small configuration error on my server, the amd64 packages 
for Raring Ringtail did not sync to CRAN.  This has been fixed and the 
64-bit packages should be available soon on a CRAN mirror near you.

- As has been previously discussed, R 3.0.0 requires that all packages 
be rebuilt against it. Therefore, all the r-cran-* packages found in the 
Ubuntu universe repository will not work with R 3.0.0.  In an effort to 
rectify this, I have rebuilt a number of those packages against R 3.0.0 
and they can be found at the [RRutter 
PPA](https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter), but not CRAN.  I 
am still having issues with a couple of packages, but I am working on those.

- R 3.0.0 is still available for older Ubuntu releases on my [RDev 
PPA](https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rdev).  The plan is to 
upgrade Lucid, Precise, and Quantal this Friday evening (May 3rd, 2013) 
as well as many of the r-cran-* packages available in universe.  If you 
do not want to upgrade to R 3.0.0, please remove the appropriate 
repository from you sources list.

-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
4205 College Drive
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
mar36 at psu.edu