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

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

-- 
https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

The versions in debian bullseye/stable and above are all 1.5.0, the most 
recent CRAN package is 1.7.1.  For my purposes I can just use the 1.7.1 
CRAN version.  I might file a bug against the debian r-cran-shiny package, 
but I assume the maintainer will update it in due course anyway...

Thanks a lot!

Joseph

On Tue, 18 Jan 2022, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -- 
> https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>