Current Ubuntu version of R is old

[Derek Broughton]

Felipe Figueiredo wrote:

> This is where prevu comes in: you can backport the package if it's
> available in the next release, compile it and generate a locally compiled
> package.

Cool.  I hadn't heard of that.  It still means you need all the extras you'd
need to compile from the upstream source, but I'd hope it would be simpler
and you end up with a package that will get automatically upgraded when
Ubuntu catches up with your version.
-- 
derek