[R-sig-Debian] r-api-3 with R 3.5.2. on Stretch: is there a workaround?

[Chris Evans]

Thanks for confirming Johannes.  I take it that the "new, richer ..." option would be a lot of work.  I'm happy to let this old laptop grind through.  There's the silver lining for me that when I did this install.packages() for pretty much the same list of packages on the server it ran through it pretty fast so it's nice that the laptop is reminding me how fast the server is!

Very best to all,

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Johannes Ranke" <johannes.ranke using jrwb.de>
> To: "r-sig-debian" <r-sig-debian using r-project.org>, "Chris Evans" <chrishold using psyctc.org>
> Sent: Monday, 21 January, 2019 14:12:07
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] r-api-3 with R 3.5.2. on Stretch: is there a workaround?

> Chris,
> 
> yes, the workaround is to install from within R. The alternative would be to
> increase the coverage of this repo, as currently mainly the recommended
> packages are supported. Another alternative would be to create a new, richer
> repo...
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Johannes
> 
> Am Montag, 21. Januar 2019, 13:45:52 CET schrieb Chris Evans:
>> Now that I am at least mapping the right repository to my Debian version
>> (doh!) I have another question. In the installation page at
>> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/#debian-stretch-stable there is
>> the line:
>> 
>> "Please note that R packages from the Debian stretch distribution are not
>> compatible with R 3.5.x, as it provides r-api-3.5, while the stretch
>> packages depend on r-api-3."
>> 
>> Certainly a number of packages won't install with Synaptic giving the
>> complaint about depending on r-api-3 and not having it, exactly as that
>> line says.  It seems that one package that gives this error, car, builds
>> fine in R with the usual install.packages("car") (after dealing with the
>> curl library dependency).
>> 
>> Am I right that the workaround is to install all the affected packages
>> within R?  On the very slow old laptop I'm using for this work that is
>> taking ages and I'm guessing that had I been able to install the debs the
>> installation would have been much faster.
>> 
>> Is there a workaround or am I right that installing within R _is_ the
>> workaround?
>> 
>> TIA (again),
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> 
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> Johannes Ranke
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