[R-sig-Debian] Installing and maintaining R on Ubuntu 9.04 -, best practice

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 June 2009 at 17:09, Graham Smith wrote:
| John and Dirk
| 
| Thanks you both for this, I did search the archives (probably using
| the wrong terms) and only found vague mention to the issue, but a Wiki
| entry giving the sort of overviw you have just given might be useful.
| 
| It's seems you are forced to do a bit of mix and match becuase if
| where the differenet packages are available.

Correct. And that was never 'best practices' because anybody thought it would
be best that way.  It just evolved...

On Ubuntu you have the added problem / benefit of the bi-annual releases. So
even though there are more and more r-cran-* packages they may not be
current. OTOH building locally from source via R using either R CMD INSTALL
... or install.packages() stumps a lot of people b/c of build-depends etc.  

"It all depends", and not in small part of the user's skill level and
expertise.  We are trying to make it easier but it takes a while.

So with that: a wiki discussion may help provided people find and read it.

Dirk

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