On 9 February 2009 at 14:39, Nathaniel Smith wrote: | On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Laurent Gautier <lgaut...@gmail.com> wrote: | > I suppose that your have strong arguments for not moving from R-2.7 to R-2.8 | > ? NewDevDesc was a transition entity and has gone away with R-2.8. | > (It's still a moving target, but the target R for rpy2-2.1 by the time it | > gets ready will likely be R-2.9... at least) | | Not really -- it just happens that 2.7 is what Ubuntu has packaged, | and it was easier to write the one line patch to make rpy2 compatible | with 2.7 than it would be to build and maintain an | out-of-package-system 2.8. And the patch is trivial, correct, and | sufficient, so eh, why not.
See http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ -- see the detailed README. New versions are typically available within days of R releases as properly built and maintained .deb packages for the different Ubuntu flavours in both x86 ("i386") and x86_64 ("amd64"). Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ rpy-list mailing list rpy-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rpy-list
