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

[Rainer M Krug]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the explamnayion - Debian is running in a VM (and nothing really installed on it) , and I think the easiest is for me just to install Debian 10 and to use that one.

Thanks a lot,

Rainer



> On 22 Sep 2020, at 15:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 
> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org

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