Over a week ago (on r-help, my bad!) I raised a question of why the ubuntu install instructions
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html instruct users with a xenial-based system to use deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran40/ Looking at https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ there is no xenial-cran40 directory. However, https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ does have this directory, and I managed to update a machine still running Linux Mint 18.3 by putting in deb https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran40/ I suspect novice users might not have found this work-around, and it was only by chance I found it. My query: Is it intended that xenial support will not be available for R 4.0? Or is this this just an oversight? Or some quirk that affects just my environment? I've tried to ensure caches are updated. Side-bar: I would update the example machine, but it runs some software needed for another use-case that is not working at all on more modern systems. Where possible, I try to keep up to date, and am migrating the use-case over time to a different software environment. Best, JN _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
