R SIG Debian - Jan 2022 - https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/issues/3573

Thanks!  This seems to be a problem specific to the debian package 
r-cran-shiny - if I install shiny with install.packages() then it seems to 
work fine...

Joseph

On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> Joseph,
>
> Seems to work fine here -- Ubuntu 21.04, R 4.1.2, all CRAN packages current
>
> Note that even on Debian stable you can get yourself current R and current
> key packages thanks to the work of Johannes, see
>
>   https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
>
> for more.
>
> -- 
> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>

On 18 January 2022 at 18:26, Joseph Maher wrote:
| Thanks!  This seems to be a problem specific to the debian package 
| r-cran-shiny

Well: which version, exactly?  The pages at 

   https://packages.debian.org/r-cran-shiny

show us that there are quite a few, and that you could get current 1.5.0
version if you enable the buster-backports repo.

| - if I install shiny with install.packages() then it seems to 
| work fine...

a) Standard procedure: Please establish whether this happens with the
_current_ package in Debian. If so, _contact the Debian maintainer_

b) Stuff happens. CRAN moves fast. For me, Debian stable is too old. You may
have to find _your sweet spot_ between current CRAN features and Debian
stability and upgradeability.

Cheers, Dirk

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