R SIG Debian - Jan 2015 - Unable to install R 3.1.2 on Debian:Testing

Hi Johannes,

On 18 January 2015 at 20:47, Johannes Ranke wrote:
| At the moment you are on your own with R 3.1.2 on jessie. The easiest safe bet
in my opinion
| would be to install from the Debian sources in unstable, i.e. add a deb-src
entry for unstable
| to your sources.list, do an apt-get build-dep r-base and then apt-get source
--build r-base
| and install the packages with dpkg.

Ok. I will set up a new toolchain for testing then. We need this for Rocker
all the time---eg I just put something marvelous into littler which I need in
Rocker, yet Debian is frozen with no timeline for release. And it is silly
for us to keep rebuilding all these things when building containers.

The three of us should (will !!) work something out that will allow us proper
testing support via CRAN, which we can fold into your existing mirror
structure.  Plan?

Cheers, Dirk

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On 18 January 2015 at 14:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| Ok. I will set up a new toolchain for testing then. We need this for Rocker
| all the time---eg I just put something marvelous into littler which I need in
| Rocker, yet Debian is frozen with no timeline for release. And it is silly
| for us to keep rebuilding all these things when building containers.
| 
| The three of us should (will !!) work something out that will allow us proper
| testing support via CRAN, which we can fold into your existing mirror
| structure.  Plan?

Or maybe we just stick with "testing" and set up "unstable"
via apt pinning
for surgical per-package updates. One of many HOWTOs:

   http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html

I've used this quite a bit in the past and it "Just Work (TM)".

Dirk

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>
> Or maybe we just stick with "testing" and set up
"unstable" via apt pinning
> for surgical per-package updates. One of many HOWTOs:
>
>    http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
>
> Nice, that looks very promising.
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Le 18/01/2015 15:55, Dirk Eddelbuettel a ?crit :
>
> On 18 January 2015 at 14:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> | Ok. I will set up a new toolchain for testing then. We need this for
Rocker
> | all the time---eg I just put something marvelous into littler which I
need in
> | Rocker, yet Debian is frozen with no timeline for release. And it is
silly
> | for us to keep rebuilding all these things when building containers.
> |
> | The three of us should (will !!) work something out that will allow us
proper
> | testing support via CRAN, which we can fold into your existing mirror
> | structure.  Plan?
>
> Or maybe we just stick with "testing" and set up
"unstable" via apt pinning
> for surgical per-package updates. One of many HOWTOs:
>
>     http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
>
> I've used this quite a bit in the past and it "Just Work
(TM)".
Using testing as my regular Debian, this is how I do it: apt pinning on 
stable/testing/unstable, with testing on 900, stable on 800, unstable on 
90, and every priority package on > 900.

Then a selection of R packages from official Debian unstable repositories 
are also set up with 900 (I may have missed a few since I didn't update the 
list for a while):

Package: r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-recommended r-cran-boot 
r-cran-cluster r-cran-class r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign 
r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-mass r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv 
r-cran-nlme r-cran-nnet r-cran-rmatrix r-cran-rpart r-cran-spatial 
r-cran-survival r-cran-tkrplot littler
Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian
Pin-Priority: 900

Works like a charm... R 3.1.2 from SID.

Hope this helps! (I can provide a more detailed source.list/preferences if 
necessary)
Mathieu.

>
> Dirk
>
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