On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Stephane Dray wrote: > Dear David, > you can simply add the line : > > deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian stable/ > > to your sources.list. You can then obtain newer R versions for stable Debian.
Perfect. That seems exactly like what I want. Thanks, Dave > > Sincerely. > > > Selon "Edzer J. Pebesma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> David Forrest wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Does the install.packages('sp') on my R V2.1.0 (Debian Stable) report: >>> >>> no package 'sp' at the repositories in: download.packages(pkgs, destdir >>> = tmpd, available = available >>> >>> ... because sp from CRAN depends on "R (>= 2.4.0), methods" ? >>> >>> The machine is a production server, and I'd like to not mix the >>> Debian releases on it if I can avoid it. Its using some rusty old >>> scripts with library(maps) on it. >>> >>> Would you advise a separate R 2.4.0 + install for using sp on these >>> machines? >>> >> Dave, >> >> library(maps) does not require sp. If you want to use sp, it doesn't >> sound rusty to me. Alternatively, you could try to find sp sources that >> were there when R was 2.1.0 (were they of any use back then?), perhaps >> in some CRAN area that I couldn't find, or wait until Debian Etch >> becomes stable, it has R 2.4.0. The general R attitude seems to be to >> keep up with R release, don't expect backports of current packages. >> >> Hth, >> -- >> Edzer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-sig-Geo mailing list >> R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo >> >> > > > -- Dr. David Forrest [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)684-7900w [EMAIL PROTECTED] (804)642-0662h http://maplepark.com/~drf5n/ _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo