just a quick follow-up: ...
> >> - http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ says I should run > >> "`dpkg -get-selections | grep r-cran` and compare with the list of > >> packages supported below." I've done that, but I don't know what to > >> do with that knowledge: do I `aptitude remove` all of those packages > >> /not/ listed below or do something else? > > > > Well these are the packages that will not work after the upgrade to R > > 3.0.x. You can leave them on your system, but I would recommend to > > remove them and install them from within R using install.packages() > > after the upgrade. But just to be clear: you do not need to remove those > > that are in the list of supported packages in the README as these will > > be upgraded together with base R. > > `dpkg -get-selections | grep r-cran | wc -l` shows 100 such packages, > but synaptic shows 25 packages installed from squeeze-cran/main. So I > have 25 packages to remove (easy) and 100 to reinstall later (a bit more > of a chore :-) ). The 25 packages from squeeze-cran/main will be automatically upgraded to the versions available in squeeze-cran3 so no need to remove them. .... > The two things I didn't understand were > > - what to do when I identified packages that were installed in Debian (I > guessed right, but I didn't have the guts to try it and see) > > - what to do when I read seemingly contradictory instructions, even if > they were potentially for different platforms I see your point. > You helped. Good to hear. > > I have upgraded painlessly using this approach, but it would be nice to > > hear about your experiences. > > I'll check back in. > > Vielen Dank! Bitte! Johannes > Bill > -- > Bill Harris > Facilitated Systems > http://makingsense.facilitatedsystems.com/ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
