On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:35 AM, Robin Lovelace <rob...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd be interested to hear views on how and when Ubuntu users should upgrade > to R 3.5.0. > I made the upgrade a few days ago but reverted because of issues installing > packages such as rJava, which I installed on the system with r-cran-rjava.
My strategy will be to jump to R 3.5 when I upgrade my servers to Ubuntu Bionic in a few weeks (will probably do a clean install). Currently c2d4u has pretty great coverage of CRAN binaries for Xenial (and Trusty) so I will stick with Xenial + R 3.4 for now. >From activity on launchpad it looks like c2d4u-3.5 is currently focussing on Ubuntu Bionic, which is great because that will give us a clean path forward. Hopefully in a few weeks from now, most r-cran packages will be there so we can upgrade to Bionic and R3.5 at the same time. > Also any advice on how to do a clean uninstall of the previous version > before making the leap greatly appreciated. Due to the missing api tags, I think it will be very difficult to automatically determine which r-cran packages you can keep. If you really need to upgrade you probably want to purge r-cran-* and r-base-* and reinstall from the new ppa. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian