Le Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 10:19:17AM +0200, Paul Menzel a écrit : > > Thank you very much for packaging and maintaining R and related software in > Debian. Some of our scientists use Debian and its R packages. Sometimes > they’d like to use different R versions, for example, they’d like to stay > with an R version from a different Debian suite, or use different versions > in parallel. Is that somehow supported? I only read README [1]. If it’s > documented somewhere, I am sorry for the noise and a pointer would be nice.
Dear Paul, I am not the mainainer of r-base, but I would like to mention the lightweight containerisation system `schroot` available in Debian, that makes it easy to run other versions of R while keeping the same home directory. I have blogged an example where I installed R 4.1 to run it on Buster. http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/r-4.1/index.en Dirk (the r-base maintainer), has probably other good (and more modern) solutions. In any case, please feel free to post more questions directly on the debian-r mailing list. Have a nice week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
