[R-sig-Debian] Installing Rstudio and shiny free server on Debian

[Chris Evans]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd using debian.org>
> To: "Chris Evans" <chrishold using psyctc.org>
> Cc: "r-sig-debian" <r-sig-debian using r-project.org>
> Sent: Saturday, 12 January, 2019 21:23:46
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Installing Rstudio and shiny free server on Debian

> On 12 January 2019 at 20:30, Chris Evans wrote:
>| I wonder if I'm hitting problems you're not seeing not only because of running
>| stretch/stable but also because of running the i386 version.  I suspect most
>| people are on 64 bit systems now.
> 
> Cannot speak to i386. I gave up on it relatively late given that I always had
> lower-memory laptops.  It may be time to let that one go.

Yes!  Surreal oddity of the Toshiba that it won't accept amd64 of either Debian or Ubuntu.  I never liked it and I don't think they have a great record of sympathy with FLOSS.  I'll find another machine that will take amd64 and relegate this to a curiosity, or recycle it!
 
> I can only speak to amd64. Which works *great* and very reliably.

I had assumed so and believe you completely.  Always been true on my various www server machines over the years, i386 and then, latterly, amd64.  I was working with R, Emacs and ESS on those though, not Rstudio.  Now do almost all my R work through Rstudio and, sadly, for now, on Windoze laptops.  About to try to change that, but that's another story!
 
>| root using Toshiba-L750-Stretchi386:/etc/apt# apt-get install rstudio
> 
> Your thinko. 

Dont' understand "thinko"!

> I have known JJ 

Nor do I understand "JJ"!

> for nearly ten years, and I have complained
> nearly all that time that they need an apt-get'able repo.

If you mean Rstudio.com, for Rstudio and the free server then I agree completely and it seems daft they don't, particularly as they offer a CRAN mirror.  (If I understand your "JJ" correctly.)

> Which they don't have, so you read the instructions wrong. Download, then
> 'sudo dpkg -i' (or do 'sudo gdebi ...' per their instructions).

I had downloaded, and I was in a root session, hence no "sudo".  I think that's OK (though I know some people, Knoppixers particularly, think people like me who still use "su" and open root sessions are dark shapeshifters who should be burned at the stake!)
 
>| Has anyone been able to download and install the server on a 64bit Debian
>| stretch system?
> 
> Easily by manual downloads first.

Great.  Now to find an old machine that _will_ host amd64 stretch and follow your example!  Then on to the actual server!!

Many thanks again,

Chris
 
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