[R-sig-Debian] Why is rstudio not in Ubuntu repo or PPA?

[Xu Wang]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 23 September 2015 at 21:49, Xu Wang wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> | rstudio is very easy to install, but it would be great if it were just
> | an apt-get away. Is there a reason it is not in Ubuntu main repos or
> | in rrutter PPA?
>
> That is a question you have to ask RStudio, not us.
>
> There is somebody trying to package it for Debian, but I am not sure how far
> that effort has gotten.

I will hope that he/she makes progress and check again in some months.

>
> Dirk
>
> (For what it is worth, we now put the server and desktop .deb packages into a
> local "inside-the-firewall-only" repo at work, so with that we are not
> redistributing it.)

I see. Thank you for the knowledge.

And thank you for your dedication to this list and for all of your great work!

Kind regards,

Xu