Am Samstag, 14. Dezember 2013, 04:30:14 schrieb Bill Harris: > Johannes Ranke <[email protected]> writes: > >> - 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. > > I used synaptic to tell me which Debian packages came from r-cran, and I > tried deleting them in synaptic.
Oops, I still was not clear enough. The binary debs coming from CRAN are updated if you go from squeeze-cran to squeeze-cran3. Only R packages coming from Debian squeeze need to be taken care of. > Are the instructions the same for Windows? No. > It seems to have worked well. Good to hear. > I wonder if you could also say "Delete > any packages using synaptic or aptitude /except/ for those which want to > delete r-base, as well"? Should read: "Remove r-cran packages stemming from debian squeeze". Kind regards, Johannes > > Bill _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
