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

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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Hi Mathieu,

thanks for contributing your tips on apt pinning on Debian testing. I have 
included similar instructions in the Debian README for the situation where 
testing was frozen. This time I thought I would get around to provide proper 
binaries for testing quickly enough, but I need to get some other work done, 
so I am lagging behind here.

If someone could provide some lines with nice pinning instructions of text for 
the Debian README on CRAN, I would be happy to incorporate them, otherwise I 
will only have time in the weekend to do something (amend the README or set up 
a new repo for jessie) on the weekend.

Cheers,

Johannes

Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015, 20:37:05 schrieb Mathieu
Basille:
> 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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> otherwise I will only have time in the weekend to do something (amend the
> README or set up a new repo for jessie) on the weekend.
The repository for jessie is in the works - but don't expect it to be up 
before next weekend.

Johannes