Re: [PATCH] gnu: r: Update to 3.3.1.

[myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com>]

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> myglc2 <myglc2@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I can assure you that if our users do guix pull and invisibly get a new
>> R release,
>
> They need to to ‘guix pull’ *and* ‘guix package -u’.
>
>> their analyses will from time to time break. So we may want a simple
>> way for them to back down to a previous release. So.. I am thinking it
>> would make sense to keep previous versions of R in the recipe. What do
>> others think?
>
> I don’t use R myself; keeping a couple of R versions would be fine,
> though R packages would always be built only against the latest R.

I had forgotten that you are also building many packages. Given that, an
update to the R guix recipe may break some packages. So all the packages
should probably be tested as part of an R recipe update. Do/did we do
that?

As regards keeping a couple of R versions, if we don't keep the
associated packages it will have limited usefulness, so I withdraw
the suggestion.