Hello Dirk, Thursday, November 18, 2004, 3:18:40 PM, you wrote:
DE> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:52:38AM +0000, stats wrote: >> I'm a bit puzzled. I had >> deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian woody main >> in /etc/apt/sources.list and had hoped, perhaps rather unwisely, that >> this would look after the transition from 1.8.0 on my internet server (Debian >> stable) where it serves up some cgi-bin work. (Most of my R work is >> on a Win2k machine, much though I'd like to go Debian all the way, >> that isn't possible for my main job in near future.) >> >> Is there an easy way of upgrading R on a Debian stable machine? I >> don't want to move off stable as the security side of that server is >> too important. I also don't really want to compile it myself if I can >> avoid that, the server is pretty old iron and that might back up all >> the Email stuff it does. >> >> Advice anyone? DE> More than advice, we need a volunteer to "backport" the current R package(s) DE> for Debian to the Debian stable distribution. As I said, testing and DE> unstable are taken care of (and yes, testing is still lagging because of the DE> now much more formal interdependence of packages; R 2.0.* will appears once DE> all dependent packages are available on all architectures) I'm sure this is in itself proof that I'm not the person to do it but can you say a bit more about what's involved Dirk? I run a pretty low powered Debian stable server on i386 hardware (an athlon if I remember rightly) with pretty much the standard packages, GCC, perl etc. and I'm not completely stupid. However, debugging compiler and make complaints is really not my area of competence and I do wonder about the likely load on the machine and on my time. In the not too distant future this machine should be replaced with a much more powerful one and a somewhat more powerful backup machine so hardware may not be a long term problem. Any chance I can be useful? Could I team up with someone who really knows what s/he is doing but doesn't use Debian stable and work this together? Let me know, I'd love to put something very direct back into the R project. Chris ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
