> On Mar 26, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Gábor Csárdi <csardi.ga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > wrote: > [...] >> >> This means that the next version of R will probably not available on Ubuntu >>> >> >> The 'next version of R' will be 3.2.0, and the pre-3.2.0 sources include >> zlib. > > > My bad, sorry about that. I thought R-devel (trunk) will be released next, > obviously not. > > >> Whereas R-devel will not be released (as 3.3.x) until 2016. >> > > Great, I just hope that Travis will upgrade before that. Although the end > of life of 12.04 is April 2017. >
Yes, but with LTS you're locked in to the versions at the time so for 12.04 LTS that is R 2.14.1 so I'm not sure what R 3.x has anything to do with that. If you want to use any R more recent that R 2.14.1 on 12.04 then you have to supply your own binaries either way so this is a non-issue. Cheers, Simon > Thanks, > Gabor > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel