[R-sig-Debian] R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 22 September 2020 at 14:49, Rainer M Krug wrote:
| I know this is likely documented somewhere, but I can’t find it. How can I install R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?

That is 'oldstable'. You are making a heroic assumption that "some" volunteer
prepared a binary for you.

Maybe ... that volunteer needs to be you ;-) !

On a more serious note, doing that is actually very straightforward because
Debian packages are so well structured.  Download the source package from
unstable, unpack it on a Debian 9 machine or container or pbuilder or ... and
build it. Learn how to create a package repo and upload it somewhere. I have
done so in very small scale with Debian packages I needed [1] and more
generally "do it all the time" for the Ubuntu systems as Launchpad makes it
so easy. [2]

We (in the "royal we" sense) could and should probably think about writing a
short and simple paper walking through these steps. 

Dirk

[1] https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ppa
[2] https://launchpad.net/~edd links to three repos of mine

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