On 5/3/18 7:43 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 3 May 2018 at 13:21, Jeroen Ooms wrote: | 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. c2d4u3.5 looks great! But for Travis we will also need trusty aka 14.04 :-/
That will slowly be built up. Right now I am working on all the packages in Bionic that exist in universe. If I don't rebuild them first, any attempt to redo c2d4u will fail. Once those are finished, I will slowly start rebuilding the other distros and CRAN Task Views. It will take some time.
Michael
| > 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. Maybe the interfaces to the package systems can help: ie update.packages() has 'checkbuilt' option may be useful. On the Linux side I added a few queries to the RcppAPT package, so it can tell you which packages depend on older R versions like 3.4.* (or older). Dirk
-- Dr. Michael A. Rutter Associate Director, School of Science Associate Professor of Statistics Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Station Road Erie, PA 16563 http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
