R SIG Debian - May 2016 - Problem with Install R on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

On 12 May 2016 at 09:17, Erol Biceroglu wrote:
| Side question... would this have anything to do with 16.04 being new and
| (potentially) "less stable" than 14.04?? Or put another way, would
this issue
| come up under 14.04?

No.

User error (with apt-config files) is orthogonal to release quality.

And FWIW some people seem to be quite positive on 16.04:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubuntu-16-04-proves-even-an-lts-release-can-live-at-linuxs-bleeding-edge/

Dirk

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Thanks for clarifying Dirk.




On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> On 12 May 2016 at 09:17, Erol Biceroglu wrote:
> | Side question... would this have anything to do with 16.04 being new and
> | (potentially) "less stable" than 14.04?  Or put another way,
would this
> issue
> | come up under 14.04?
>
> No.
>
> User error (with apt-config files) is orthogonal to release quality.
>
> And FWIW some people seem to be quite positive on 16.04:
>
>
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubuntu-16-04-proves-even-an-lts-release-can-live-at-linuxs-bleeding-edge/
>
> Dirk
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>
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Don't know why but I was able to install R & Rstudio without any
problems in Ubuntu 14.04 with the same dual-boot setup.

Atakan

Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 10:34:34 -0400
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem with Install R on Linux Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
Xerus
From: erol.biceroglu at alumni.utoronto.ca
To: edd at debian.org
CC: atakanokan at outlook.com; r-sig-debian at r-project.org

Thanks for clarifying Dirk.



On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:


On 12 May 2016 at 09:17, Erol Biceroglu wrote:

| Side question... would this have anything to do with 16.04 being new and

| (potentially) "less stable" than 14.04?  Or put another way, would
this issue

| come up under 14.04?



No.



User error (with apt-config files) is orthogonal to release quality.



And FWIW some people seem to be quite positive on 16.04:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/ubuntu-16-04-proves-even-an-lts-release-can-live-at-linuxs-bleeding-edge/



Dirk



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