Rolf,
Sorry for only briefly chiming in, and late, but I don't usually follow
r-help that much these days.
I am writing this from an Ubuntu machine running R as well as RStudio from
pre-made binary .deb packages. R comes via apt from CRAN (using Michael's
binaries), RStudio from them via helper scripts in a package of mine:
edd@rob:~$ dpkg -l | grep "r-base-core\|rstudio\|rstudio-server" | cut -c-79
ii r-base-core 4.1.0-1.2104.0
ii rstudio 2021-07.0.270
ii rstudio-server 2021-07.0.270
edd@rob:~$
Contrary to what you wrote, RStudio *will* use whichever binary it finds
first in the path, just like any other Unix tool. So when I do
$ rstudio
I get R 4.1.0 from the binary above, but if I opt into my locally compiled
R-devel via a standard PATH prefix then
$ PATH=/usr/local/lib/R-devel/bin/:$PATH rstudio
RStudio happily runs with R-devel.
Next, "doc/". This has been in /usr/share/R for probably well over a decade
on these Debian system; almost all other packages on Linux distros also split
between binary ("architecture-specific") directories (such as lib/) and
binary-independent ones (such as share/).
And by the way, in R you can do call R.home() with an argument to see:
> R.home("doc")
[1] "/usr/share/R/doc"
> R.home("library")
[1] "/usr/lib/R/library"
>
Of course, you are free to use whichever R installation and configuration
*you* mind most suitable. It is after all your machine. But quite a few of
us are happy with these official binaries.
Lastly, and I we may have mentioned this to you before, a dedicated mailing
lists for 'R on Debian + Ubuntu' exists (in r-sig-debian at the usual ETH
server) and you might have gotten useful answers sooner.
Anyway, you are set now, so enjoy R!
Cheers, Dirk
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