[R-sig-Debian] arm64 r-base backports on CRAN

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM Johannes Ranke <johannes.ranke using jrwb.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Dirk,
>
> Am Dienstag, 24. Juni 2025, 20:20:42 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> > Hi Johannes,
> >
> > ( And sorry about the fat-finger typo in the earlier email butchering your
> > name.
>
> No worries! Happens to the best of us - and to me as well :)
>
> > I really need to get proof-reading emails before sending... )
> > >
> > On 24 June 2025 at 20:02, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> > | On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM Johannes Ranke <johannes.ranke using jrwb.de>
> wrote:
> > | > Hey Jeroen,
> > | >
> > | > I was recently considering to do this, but did not get around to buy
> > | > hardware or look for hosting on that architecture.
>
> I found a nice offer from my hosting provider. The arm64 backports of R 4.5.1
> to Debian 11 (bullseye) and 12 (bookworm) should hit the mirrors at midnight.

Thanks! I have enabled these backports in the containers on
https://github.com/r-devel/containers such that folks can easily use
these to test R or R packages on those platforms.