[Rcpp-devel] Cannot install Rcpp 0.8.6 under R 2.11.0 or R 3.0.0 in Ubuntu 12.10

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 8 April 2013 at 15:51, Kirill Müller wrote:
| The first two -- to maintain compatibility with those ancient versions. 
| The last one -- because I'm so lazy and loathe working in a virtual 
| machine instead of my native environment. I guess I'll have to overcome 
| my laziness in such cases -- after all, setting up an Ubuntu VM is 
| really painless.

Spot on. I use lightweight kernel-based "kvm" via virt-manager for that and
have three other OSs / versions on my box.

But as I said before, you probably want to do that with a corresponding
ancient OS / distro version -- so I'd start with a one of the LTS versions
predating it. 

Dirk

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