Hi Jeff, Thanks for elucidating and suggestions, I realized I should email the debian mailing list right after I posted here in 'help', sorry for that, then I did get quick response on that mailing list, they told me the distro for Ubuntu 10.04 will be released in couple days, right now, I could upgrade my R to 2.11 and then upgrade my system to Lucid.
Thanks again for your suggestions! Best Tengfei On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us>wrote: > Tengfei Yin wrote: > >> Hi dear all >> >> I am currently using Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) and R 2.10, I can find a R >> release >> that support "karmic" in cran under ubuntu directory, I plan to update my >> laptop to Ubuntu 10.04 after April 30, since I have to use some new >> features >> or new version in it, e.g. QT 4.6, I don't know if there is going to be a >> R >> release that will support this newly released Ubuntu? >> >> Thanks >> >> Best wishes >> >> Tengfei >> >> > a) Applications don't "support" distros... it is the other way around. A > distro may introduce improvements, but it is generally considered a bug for > POSIX-compliant distros to upgrade in a manner that leaves existing > application software unable to run (though it may in some cases need to be > recompiled). > > b) Since the quality of support depends on users like you trying it out and > reporting bugs and/or patches, your best bet is to try it and report any > problems you encounter. (I often upgrade by loading the new OS into a > separate partition... but that is more as assurance that the OS itself will > be stable, rather than due to concern about existing applications.) > > c) This mailing list topic is on using the R software. The correct forum > for helping (or observing progress of others) with Debian packages of R > (used on Ubuntu distro) is > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > > -- Tengfei Yin MCDB PhD student 1620 Howe Hall, 2274, Iowa State University Ames, IA,50011-2274 Homepage: www.tengfei.name [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
