[R-sig-Debian] Advice on article about installing R on Linux

[Robin Lovelace]

To the list this time...

On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 2:03 PM Robin Lovelace <rob00x using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dirk,
>
> Thanks for the quick response.
>
> I've updated the draft post following your suggestions, see the updated
> version, in nice .md format, here:
> https://github.com/geocompr/geocompr.github.io/blob/installing-on-linux/content/post/2020/installing-r-spatial-packages-linux.md
>
> Any better? I think so! The key bit for eoan users is this:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu eoan-cran35/'
> sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/c2d4u3.5
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt install r-base-dev r-cran-sf r-cran-raster r-cran-tmap
>
> Following your suggestion I have created a Dockerfile to test this:
> https://github.com/Robinlovelace/geocompr/blob/master/docker/ubuntu-eoan/Dockerfile
>
> (Taken with credit from your rocker project work.)
>
> Unfortunately it fails with the following message:
>
> W: GPG error: https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu eoan-cran35/
> InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public
> key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 51716619E084DAB9
> E: The repository 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu
> eoan-cran35/ InRelease' is not signed.
>
> Any ideas? I've tried various combinations mentioned here but not luck
> yet: https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/#secure-apt
>
> Regarding Fedora, didn't know that. Is this the message you're referring
> to? https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/cran/
>
> I will add that link to this section if so:
> https://github.com/geocompr/geocompr.github.io/blob/installing-on-linux/content/post/2020/installing-r-spatial-packages-linux.md#3-installing-geographic-r-packages-on-other-linux-operating-systems
>
> All the best,
>
> Robin
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:46 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Robin,
>>
>> On 28 March 2020 at 10:30, Robin Lovelace wrote:
>> | Dear list,
>> |
>> | I've drafted an article on installing geographic R packages on Linux
>> | computers and would appreciate any feedback. Is the following text
>> correct,
>> | useful and future-proof?:
>> |
>> | R’s spatial packages can be installed from source on recent (since
>> Ubuntu
>> | 19.04) versions of this popular operating system, once the appropriate
>> | repository has been set-up, meaning faster install times (only a few
>> | minutes including the installation of upstream dependencies). The
>> following
>> | bash commands should install key geographic R packages on Ubuntu 19.04,
>> | 19.10 or 20.04:
>>
>> I wonder if we should provide these for "bionic" (18.04) and onwards as
>> that
>> is (for a few more weeks) the reigning LTS.  Also, saying 19.04 here and
>> pointing to eoan sounds fishy. 19.04 is "disco" IIRC.
>>
>> I also *strongly* recommend you bullet-proof this by starting from a plain
>> ubuntu:$VERSION container and test it.
>>
>> | sudo -i
>> | echo 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu eoan-cran35/' |
>> sudo
>> | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
>>
>> The cool kids all use a new file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ now look in
>> yours.  The you can just copy and/or shell redirect.
>>
>> | sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys
>> | E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9
>>
>> I never remember if apt-add-repository works with this too.
>>
>> | sudo apt update
>> | sudo apt install r-base-dev r-cran-sf r-cran-raster r-cran-tmap
>> |
>> | If you are using an older version of Ubuntu and don’t want to upgrade to
>> | the next Long Term Support release (20.04), see instructions at
>> | github.com/r-spatial/sf.
>> |
>> | 3. Other operating systems
>> | If you are in the fortunate position of switching to Linux and being
>> able
>> | to choose the distribution that best fits your needs, it’s worth
>> thinking
>> | about which distribution will be both user-friendly (more on that soon),
>> | performant and future-proof. Ubuntu is a solid choice, with a large user
>> | community and repositories such as ‘ubuntugis’ providing more up-to-date
>> | versions of upstream geographic libraries such as GDAL.
>> |
>> | QGIS is also well-supported on on Ubuntu.
>>
>> And you could mention the Rutter PPA here -- another 4k binary packages!
>>
>> | However, you can install R and key geographic packages on other
>> operating
>> | systems, although it may take longer. Useful links on installing R and
>> | geographic libraries are provided below for reference:
>> |
>> | Installing R on Debian is covered on the CRAN website. Upstream
>> | dependencies such as GDAL can be installed on recent versions of Debian,
>> | such as buster, with commands such as apt-get install libgdal-dev as per
>> | instructions on the rocker/geospatial.
>> |
>> | Full article here:
>> |
>> https://github.com/geocompr/geocompr.github.io/blob/installing-on-linux/content/post/2020/installing-r-spatial-packages-linux.Rmd
>>
>> We could/should also shout out to Fedora who now have a repo with all
>> (!!) of
>> CRAN (!!) as per a recent email by Inaki "somewhere" (r-devel?
>> r-pkg-devel?)
>>
>> | Planning to publish this on Monday, thanks in advance for any feedback.
>>
>> It's good. Sorry for not responding sooner. The raw Rmd was hard to read;
>> I
>> tend to just push .md to GitHub (when I have R-code free writeups like
>> this
>> which is almost all of them) as that is always rendered to read.
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> | Robin
>> |
>> | P.s. I noticed in the process of writing this that eoan instructions are
>> | missing here:
>> |
>> | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
>> |
>> | Worth updating them?
>> |
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