On Thu, 14 May 2020, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
On the contrary... that is the use case in which it makes the least sense to muck with system files. System files are maintained using system package management tools which at best lag terribly, while R packages are much easier to manage using R's internal package tools with no elevated privileges.
Jeff, I must not be following your thoughts. The slackbuilds.org group maintains a package for the current R distribution (when the maintainer gets around to checking that the build script works with the source.) Every library not provided in the core R distribution I download and install from the local CRAN mirror. All Slackware distribution executables are stored in /usr/bin/. Most of the SBo application packages are also installed there. Application-specific functions are the province of the user and I let root download, build, and install R packages. Regards, Rich ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
