On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 11:15:29AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 7 November 2013 at 17:56, Kirill Müller wrote: > | Thanks. Are there any pitfalls when using this on Ubuntu? > > Every official recommendation is "don't do that". Doing it for a CI box is > silly.
Talking about silly, I just read up a bit on what travis and CI are. If installing R 2.15 with recommended packages from the CRAN Ubuntu repos is so difficult, I do not see the point in using that as a platform for testing R packages, or am I missing something here? Johannes > It would be cleaner to just build yourself a one-off 2.15 deb package, wget > it onto the travis host and use it. > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com -- Dr. Johannes Ranke [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
