Hi Piet, On 5 February 2009 at 12:31, Piet Plomp wrote: | I'm running a highschool network with Debian etch and the etch-cran | "backports" on top of it. Being bio-informatics, the newest R is essential to | us.
Bioinformatics with R at the high-school level? Neat. | I did some upgrading experiments; switching to ubuntu is not | an option, neither is fetching the sid debs for r. Why? Many of us use 'apt-pinning' with luck. My box is 'testing' but I often install the .deb package I upload into unstable there as well. Works like a charm most of time. | When trying to upgrade from etch to lenny with etch-cran packages installed | things block on etch-cran dependencies. Can you provide details? | With the upcoming release of lenny: is anyone planning a lenny-cran? | If not, can I help (I've only got amd64/x86_64 systems available)? That's what is tyoically done -- a new release and the porters roll forward to it too. | I'll need some help setting things up; currenlty I've got one system running | lenny (without R as you'll have understood) I don't understand either. Lenny has its own (now dated) R, it has (current) R from CRAN (running the stable builds) and it runs the sid build I maintain. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian