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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 March 2020 at 14:04, Robin Lovelace wrote:
| 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

Sounds good.  Should there also be a version for bionic as LTS may be more
widespread?  Personally I am with you as I also run 19.10 -- but if you were
to offer 18.04 then 18.04 + 18.10 + 19.04 + 19.10 users could run it. Seems
better, no?

| > (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

I think you are actively importing key 'A' and it tells you it is missing key
'B' where A != B.  See e.g.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10255082/installing-r-from-cran-ubuntu-repository-no-public-key-error

| > Regarding Fedora, didn't know that. Is this the message you're referring
| > to? https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/cran/

Yep!

Dirk

| > 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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| >> |
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