[R-sig-Debian] R-SIG-Debian Digest, Vol 152, Issue 4

[Bill Harris]

Thank you, Johannes.  I think I understand.  I plan to try it when I have a
free  evening.

Bill

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 9:23 PM, Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de>
wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 13. Mai 2018, 21:02:42 CEST schrieb Bill Harris:
>
> ...
>
> Do I understand correctly that I should be able to replace the last line
> of my sources.list (in my reply to Dirk) with
>
>
> deb http://<favourite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian stretch-cran35/
>
>
>
> If you do this, then update and upgrade, r-cran-* or r-cran-bioc* packages
> installed via the Debian package management system will be removed, with
> the exception of r-recommended and the few packages listed in the Debian
> CRAN page. If you cannot afford that, you should stay with R 3.4.
>
>
>
> You can check what packages will be affected as pointed out on the CRAN
> Debian page, or using apt-get upgrade -s (for silent). If this removes R
> packages your locally installed packages depend on, you need to install
> them from CRAN using install.packages or Dirks install.r afterwards.
>
>
> If you then use
>
>
> update.packages(lib.loc="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library", ask=FALSE, checkBuilt=TRUE)
>
>
>
> this will update packages installed from CRAN (provided you use the
> default local library path) to make sure they are compatible with R>=3.5.0.
> Things installed from github and the like will have to be taken care of
> separately.
>
>
>
> ...
>
> Johannes
>
>
>

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