[R-sig-Debian] R 4.0 for ARM processors

Dirk Eddelbuettel
Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:26:23 -0000

On 15 July 2020 at 14:03, Paul Teetor wrote:
| Dear R-SIG-Debian folks,
|
| I seem to be chasing my tail, despite having a simple goal:
|
| - Install R 4.0.2
| - On Ubuntu 20.04
| - For an ARM processor (not Intel/AMD).
|
| Can someone please suggest a Debian/Ubuntu repository of the required packages
(e.g., r-base-core) built for ARM? I can't seem to find one.
|
| (I can find the r-base-core package for R 3.6.3, but not R 4.0.2, built for
ARM.)
|
| If there is no such Debian/Ubuntu repository, what would you recommend? Build
R 4.0 for ARM from source? Use the cool 'rocker' images for R 4.0?
Something else?
|
| Thank you so much for your advice. I must be misunderstanding something. I
figured this would be a slam-dunk because (1) R 4.0 is the latest release, and
(2) Ubuntu 20.04 is an LTS release, and (3) ARM is a supported architecture, or
so I thought.
|
| Paul
|
| PS - Yes, the ARM processors in question are a Raspberry Pi cluster. Don't
snicker. Hey, it's got 16 cores, 16 GB RAM total, and a
| terabyte of space. And it's paid for, no monthly fee.

When I look at the build pages for my packages, eg this one for r-base

   https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=r-base

I see three (3) different arm labels: arm64, armel, armhf. I have no idea
what the Pi uses, and never looked closely, but I am at least vaguely aware
that there are apparently entire _dedicated_ distros and installers based on
the Debian builds.  Raspian is one name that comes to mind.  Did you try that?

Also, one second of Googling leads to: https://ubuntu.com/download/server/arm

Good luck, keep us posted -- other architectures/platforms can be fun.

Dirk
(who just installed 20.04 on his daughters "retired / thought dead under a
large cup of coffee spilled" macbook air)

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