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Package: r-base-core
Version: 4.1.3.20220324-1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Debian R maintainer,
Thank you very much for packaging and maintaining R and related software
in Debian. Some of our scientists use Debian and its R packages.
Sometimes they’d like to use different R versions, for example, they’d
like to stay with an R version from a different Debian suite, or use
different versions in parallel. Is that somehow supported? I only read
README [1]. If it’s documented somewhere, I am sorry for the noise and a
pointer would be nice.
Kind regards,
Paul
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/edd/r-base/-/blob/master/debian/README.debian
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On 11 April 2022 at 16:00, Paul Menzel wrote:
| Thank you very much for these suggestions. It looks like schroot
| requires root privileges. But it’s a nice fallback alternative to still
| use the Debian packages.
So does Docker if you wrap Docker around a base R image. It's a seriously
important technology, I cannot recommend enough that you look into it.
| > | Dirk (the r-base maintainer), has probably other good (and more modern)
| >
| > Both 'simpler' (just pick a directory, and point to it via $PATH or
directly;
| > this what R Core does) or 'fancier' via Docker. It all works.
|
| Unfortunately, my search engine foo failed me to find 'simpler' and
| 'fancier'. It’d be awesome if you could point me to the project pages.
https://www.rocker-project.org/
"How to use Docker with R" gets me 35 million hits on Google. I have a
number of blog posts on it (search with 'site: dirk.eddelbuettel.com') as
well as talks and slides. Maybe start with this from a (virtual) talk in
Cologne: https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/cologneRUG2020.pdf
| Thank you for the hint. In the future, I am going to direct my question
| there.
Please do.
I am closing this now.
Dirk
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