[Rcpp-devel] Problem installing Rcpp version 0.12.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

PS If you fail to compile Rcpp from source you can even get it prebuilt for
you. What you need is to add the marutter c2d4u PPA from

    https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/c2d4u

Where is an 'apt-cache policy r-cran-rcpp' run in a dedicated Docker
container which knows about this PPA and the other marutter PPA, and is set
to Ubuntu precise aka 12.04:

edd at max:~$ docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-apt:precise apt-cache policy r-cran-rcpp
r-cran-rcpp:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.12.2-1ppa0precise0
  Version table:
     0.12.2-1ppa0precise0 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
     0.10.3-2precise0 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
     0.9.9-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
edd at max:~$ 

You get roxygen2 and some other 2500+ plus packages from there too.

Very useful service -- while I don't use ancient Ubuntu versions on my
machines, I rely on this for Travis quite a bit.

Dirk

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