[R-sig-Debian] So nearly there, but can't install rJava

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 January 2019 at 15:18, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| Thanks for the offer. Personally, I am always glad to get some feedback from 
| people using the Debian backports on CRAN, so thanks for that. On the other 
| hand, I do not think that there is an error to be fixed. Of course it would be 
| nice if we could provide more precompiled debs for these backports in order to 
| avoid having to install them from sources. For me personally, this is not a 
| priority, I am happy if I manage to get the base and recommended packages out 
| on new releases.

Right.

And for what it is worth we do have several working choices -- and eg the
Ubuntu side has over 4000 r-cran-* binary packages for the LTS releases (ie
Ubuntu's variant of stable).  Debian testing has fewer, but it a little more
current on other things. And one can always mix and match binary
installations and from CRAN installation.  Most users should find their
preferred way among these choices.

It should be said, though, that Chris did chose what at least to me appears
to be the most constrained choice.

Dirk

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