> > So other people from the administration tell you which software to use > for teaching? And what happens if they tell you only Excel is > available? > ... weird ... >
On the contrary, I should say: very common. We have hardly any control over what is installed on the application servers at our university (let alone how well it is installed). > You can still use the old version there, if the new version depends on > R > >= 2.14.0. The old version will stay in the binary repositories for > old > versions of R and in the package archives of the source repository as > well. I think Duncan explained that already. Then what about new features that don't depend on parallel? Maintenance hell is born, just because you effectively force somebody to fork (True, the R builders are not the ones forcing people to stay on some "old" version, yet this scenario is not that strange that it should be ditched without regard). > > > > A second point is that the package would not *depend* or anything on > R>= > > 2.14.0. > > But it depends on it: it won't pass the checks for R < 2.14.0. Somewhat silly if it only depends on it because of the check, no? Nick Sabbe -- ping: nick.sa...@ugent.be link: http://biomath.ugent.be wink: A1.056, Coupure Links 653, 9000 Gent ring: 09/264.59.36 -- Do Not Disapprove ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel