R SIG Debian - Feb 2015 - R 3.1.2 for Debian jessie/testing available on CRAN (was: Unable to install R 3.1.2 on Debian:Testing)

> otherwise I will only have time in the weekend to do something (amend the
> README or set up a new repo for jessie) on the weekend.
The repository for jessie is in the works - but don't expect it to be up 
before next weekend.

Johannes

> The repository for jessie is in the works - but don't expect it to be
up
> before next weekend.
It's there now.

Kind regards
 
Johannes

Dear Johannes,

Thanks a lot for this work! I have to admit that I'm now a little bit 
puzzled, though. I'm running Debian Jessie (current testing) with great 
satisfaction. When it comes to R, I simply have the SID repository 
(official Debian) enabled, with some pining to get only R-related stuff.

Now, I'm not sure to understand the benefit of using the CRAN repository 
for Jessie?I feel like I'm missing the point. I understand that these are 
backports from Debian repositories, so I guess that jessie-cran3 is 
probably synced with Debian-SID from time to time, right? (which means it 
is essentially the same, with maybe a slight additional delay)

After a quick check of essential packages (in the Debian and R sense) for 
me, I found out that Debian-SID is always the best choice, providing the 
latest stable packages in all cases, while Debian-Jessie doesn't, and 
jessie-cran3 is somewhat in between. For example (the comparison works for 
version numbers):

r-base: Debian-SID = jessie-cran3 > Debian-Jessie
survival: Debian-SID > jessie-cran3 = Debian-Jessie
Matrix: Debian-SID = jessie-cran3 > Debian-Jessie
MASS: Debian-SID > jessie-cran3 > Debian-Jessie

So my question is: now that the Jessie repository in CRAN is up (thanks 
again!), what would be the preferred way to handle R-related stuff on 
Debian Jessie?

Thanks for any clarification!
Mathieu.


Le 01/02/2015 15:48, Johannes Ranke a ?crit :
>> The repository for jessie is in the works - but don't expect it to
be up
>> before next weekend.
>
> It's there now.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johannes
>
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