Dear Charles, dear Dirk,
Thank you very much for your answers. Am 09.04.22 um 14:16 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
On 9 April 2022 at 17:30, Charles Plessy wrote: | Le Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 10:19:17AM +0200, Paul Menzel a écrit : | > | > 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. | | Dear Paul, | | I am not the maintainer of r-base, but I would like to mention the | lightweight containerisation system `schroot` available in Debian, that | makes it easy to run other versions of R while keeping the same home | directory. I have blogged an example where I installed R 4.1 to run it | on Buster. | | https://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/r-4.1/index.en
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.
| 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.
| solutions. In any case, please feel free to post more questions | directly on the debian-r mailing list. I would recommend the r-sig-debian list by the R Project also covering Ubuntu and derivatives. debian-r is more 'inside baseball' (as they say here in the US) about packaging for Debian.
Thank you for the hint. In the future, I am going to direct my question there.
Kind regards, Paul
