[R-sig-Debian] Installing R 4.1.2 doesn't work as it did a week ago

[Chad Young]

Okay, thanks for all your help.

Chad Young
Bioinformatics Scientist
TwinStrand Biosciences <https://twinstrandbio.com/>


On Mon, May 9, 2022 at 8:02 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> Chad,
>
> I think you have a fundamental disconnect.  "In general" both at CRAN and
> in
> distros like Ubuntu and Debian you just get rolling releases that will
> feature the most current version of packages (with the exception of release
> snapshot time at which point a demarcation line is drawn).
>
> So you generally cannot assume you can just randomly impose version
> constraint.
> There are some expections (as the date-snapshots by first MRAN and now
> RSPM),
> but they are generally _not_ integrated with apt.
>
> In short, methinks you cannot assume you can just run a Dockerfile today as
> if were a random day you liked between R 4.1.2 and 4.1.3. The repos, and
> package management software, are designed for that use case.
>
> Hope this helps,  Dirk
>
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