Hi,

is checking out R SVN trunk the recommended way to keep up to date with
R-devel and check packages with the latest version?

My objective is to be able to have both R and R-devel versions
installed/working and up to date.
R-devel binaries would be available as symlinks in my home directory so
that I can do:

Rdevel CMD check mypkg
Rdscript -e "some R code"

anywhere on my system.

So the workflow would be:

Only once:

svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk rdevel

Then in rdevel:

svn update

./configure --prefix=~/bin/R-devel

make

make install

[Only after first compilation:
cd ~/bin/; ln- s R-devel/bin/R Rdevel; ln- s R-devel/bin/Rscript Rdscript
]

Then build/check packages as usual, using Rdevel CMD instead of R CMD.
Obviously contrib packages need to be installed/updated in Rdevel.

Can anybody see an issue in this workflow? Improvements? unneeded commands?
possible conflcts in libraries?

Would be Is there any chance that the Linux binary repositories include
Rdevel-base packages that would do all this and install R-devel system
wide. It would be up to date via apt-get-like systems.
Not sure how automatic it is to go from sources to .deb packages.

Thank you.

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