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 mainainer 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. | | http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/r-4.1/index.en | | 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. | 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. Dirk | Have a nice week-end, | | Charles | | -- | Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan | Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy | Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
