R help - May 2020 - Automating package updates after major version change

On Thu, 14 May 2020, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> Why are you mucking with the system-level library? It is quite unusual to
> have a use-case in which you should not be adjusting your personal
> library.
Jeff,

I'm the only user so there's no difference.

Regards,

Rich

On the contrary... that is the use case in which it makes the least sense to
muck with system files. System files are maintained using system package
management tools which at best lag terribly, while R packages are much easier to
manage using R's internal package tools with no elevated privileges.

On May 14, 2020 11:15:02 AM PDT, Rich Shepard <rshepard at
appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>On Thu, 14 May 2020, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
>
>> Why are you mucking with the system-level library? It is quite
>unusual to
>> have a use-case in which you should not be adjusting your personal
>> library.
>
>Jeff,
>
>I'm the only user so there's no difference.
>
>Regards,
>
>Rich
>
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On Thu, 14 May 2020, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> On the contrary... that is the use case in which it makes the least sense
> to muck with system files. System files are maintained using system
> package management tools which at best lag terribly, while R packages are
> much easier to manage using R's internal package tools with no elevated
> privileges.
Jeff,

I must not be following your thoughts. The slackbuilds.org group maintains a
package for the current R distribution (when the maintainer gets around to
checking that the build script works with the source.) Every library not
provided in the core R distribution I download and install from the local
CRAN mirror.

All Slackware distribution executables are stored in /usr/bin/. Most of the
SBo application packages are also installed there.

Application-specific functions are the province of the user and I let root
download, build, and install R packages.

Regards,

Rich