[Live-demo] Re: [OSGeo] #453: R script compiles from source, debs available

Hamish hamish_b at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 23 03:09:21 EDT 2009


Massimo Di Stefano 
> just adding the ubuntu R repository is good, so we can
> switch from R-2.8 to R 2.9.2

is there a critical need to use the latest version?
does it fix some bug that r-spatial stuff simply will not run
without?

new versions are nice and all, but every time we pull in something
unofficial we greatly increase the possibility of breaking
other stuff in many unintended and unimagined ways.



Hamish



      


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