Rolf,
This question might have been more appropriate for r-sig-debian than here. But as Simon noted, the lack of detail makes is difficult to say anything to aid. It likely was an issue local to your setup and use. These days, I strongly recommend r2u [1]. As you already use R via CRAN through apt, r2u adds one more repository after which _all_ R packages are handled via the same apt operations that you already trust to get you R from CRAN (as well as anything else on your machine). This covers all 20+ thousand CRAN packages along with 400 key BioC packages. Handling your packages with your system package managed guarantees all dependencies are resolved reliably and quickly. It makes installing, upgrading, managing CRAN package easier, faster and more reliable. To double-check, I just spot-checked 'devtools' on an r2u container (on top of Ubuntu 22.04) and of course devtools install and runs fine (as a binary). So maybe give r2u a go. "Sixteen million packages served" in two years ... Cheers, Dirk [1] https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
