R SIG Debian - Sep 2020 - R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?

Hi

I know this is likely documented somewhere, but I can?t find it. How can I
install R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?

Thanks a lot,

Rainer


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On 22 September 2020 at 14:49, Rainer M Krug wrote:
| I know this is likely documented somewhere, but I can?t find it. How can I
install R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?

That is 'oldstable'. You are making a heroic assumption that
"some" volunteer
prepared a binary for you.

Maybe ... that volunteer needs to be you ;-) !

On a more serious note, doing that is actually very straightforward because
Debian packages are so well structured.  Download the source package from
unstable, unpack it on a Debian 9 machine or container or pbuilder or ... and
build it. Learn how to create a package repo and upload it somewhere. I have
done so in very small scale with Debian packages I needed [1] and more
generally "do it all the time" for the Ubuntu systems as Launchpad
makes it
so easy. [2]

We (in the "royal we" sense) could and should probably think about
writing a
short and simple paper walking through these steps. 

Dirk

[1] https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ppa
[2] https://launchpad.net/~edd links to three repos of mine

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Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the explamnayion - Debian is running in a VM (and nothing really
installed on it) , and I think the easiest is for me just to install Debian 10
and to use that one.

Thanks a lot,

Rainer


> On 22 Sep 2020, at 15:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
wrote:
> 
> 
> On 22 September 2020 at 14:49, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> | I know this is likely documented somewhere, but I can?t find it. How can
I install R > 4.0.0 on Debian 9 Stretch?
> 
> That is 'oldstable'. You are making a heroic assumption that
"some" volunteer
> prepared a binary for you.
> 
> Maybe ... that volunteer needs to be you ;-) !
> 
> On a more serious note, doing that is actually very straightforward because
> Debian packages are so well structured.  Download the source package from
> unstable, unpack it on a Debian 9 machine or container or pbuilder or ...
and
> build it. Learn how to create a package repo and upload it somewhere. I
have
> done so in very small scale with Debian packages I needed [1] and more
> generally "do it all the time" for the Ubuntu systems as
Launchpad makes it
> so easy. [2]
> 
> We (in the "royal we" sense) could and should probably think
about writing a
> short and simple paper walking through these steps. 
> 
> Dirk
> 
> [1] https://github.com/eddelbuettel/ppa
> [2] https://launchpad.net/~edd links to three repos of mine
> 
> -- 
> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
--
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-7490-0066

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
University of Z?rich
Office Y34-J-74
Winterthurerstrasse 190
8075 Z?rich
Switzerland

Office:	+41 (0)44 635 47 64
Cell:       	+41 (0)78 630 66 57
email:      Rainer.Krug at uzh.ch
		Rainer at krugs.de
Skype:     RMkrug

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