[R-sig-Debian] R3.4 on Debian12

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Also, which compiler is this now?  Maybe it is more stringent than the one we
used when R 3.4.* was current?  For Debian, you always have its own version
of the wayback machine, namely

   https://snapshot.debian.org/

(which can be slow to respond because the breadth and depth whatever page you
refresh may pull something from fairly cold storage).  I am not saying it
will be _easy_ to recreate R 3.4.0 under Debian 12 but it is always _possible_.

But my money would be on using pre-made (at the time !!) containers:

   $ docker run --rm -ti r-base:3.4.4 R --version
   R version 3.4.4 (2018-03-15) -- "Someone to Lean On"
   Copyright (C) 2018 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
   Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
   
   R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
   You are welcome to redistribute it under the terms of the
   GNU General Public License versions 2 or 3.
   For more information about these matters see
   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
   
   $ 

That is running on Ubuntu 24.04 but taking advantage of the official (for
Docker) r-base image 3.4.4 (which the volunteers of the docker-library
maintain re-using the Dockerfile from our rocker/r-base I look after).

Heck, you could even use this container (it's Debian based) and try to peel
of the /usr/{lib,share}/R directories and add whatever shared libraries you.
That is of course a gross hack and not something I would ever publically
recommend ;-)

Dirk

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