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

[Johannes Ranke]

Am Dienstag, 22. September 2020, 15:19:44 CEST schrieb 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.

Hi all,

yes, this makes sense. I used to provide backports to oldstable on CRAN, but 
recently I am not running any oldstables systems any more, so I am glad to 
hear that it's an option for you to just use stable.

Johannes

> 
> 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
> 
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