[R-sig-Debian] Installing R-4.3.3 on Debian 12

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 March 2025 at 09:38, Media Device wrote:
| What is the recommended way to get R 4.3.3 on Debian 12? I noticed it
| doesn't exist on the `bookworm-cran40` anymore. Should I install from
| sources?

If you think you need a version that is by now outdated (as 4.4.* is current,
and 4.5.* will arrive within the month), installing from source is of course
always an option. Given that builds in fully automated ways 'then' they will
now too provided you have the right (and corresponding) setup.

There is also the Debian 'snapshot' archive which preserves all (?) binaries
every made, see  https://snapshot.debian.org/   However, it does not cover
'ports' outside the distribution such as the convenience repo at CRAN made
available by Johannes.

You can also consider Docker:

  $ docker run --rm -ti r-base:4.3.3 Rscript --version
  Rscript (R) version 4.3.3 (2024-02-29)
  $ 

This is the official Docker r-base container, derived from/identical to the
rocker/r-base container we maintain. You get every version back to R 3.5.*
that way.

Hope this helps,  Dirk

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