Hello, I do not care about version. My packages are in
/home/stephen/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.4/ and and after renaming the 4.4 folder I can load them. How do you avoid the version naming of the package folder? This is not really pressing as even as is the setup is acceptable. I did not know packages from older versions work on upgraded r-base. Cheers On Tue, 2025-05-13 at 18:14 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 13 May 2025 at 18:32, Stephen Bond via R-SIG-Debian wrote: > > is there a way to get R 4.4 on linux mint with ubuntu 24.04? > > > > I allowed upgrade of packages and that overwrote my 4.4 with 4.5 > > and > > now i have a huge list of packages, some of which are difficult to > > install to deal with. > > Well I have been meaning to write a piece about upgrading but ... > what exactly is > your issue here, and how can we help? > > For context, I _never_ reinstall R packages when R upgrades (apart, > of > course, for changes like R 4.0.0 when we had to). So in my standard > place, > ie /usr/local/lib/R/site-library, a month after R 4.5.0 came, it is > still a > healthy mix of packages installed with R 4.5.0, 4.4.*, 4.3.* and > possibly > older. They all work. > > Now, back to your question: I am not aware of a repo for Ubuntu that > mimicks > snapshot.debian.org giving you all builds. But if you look at > packages.ubuntu.com and search you get this > > https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=r-base&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > > indicating 4.4.1 in 24.10 and 4.4.3 in 25.04. Your 24.04 only has > 4.3.3. But > read on... > > But if you really think you must use R 4.4.* on Ubuntu 24.04 you can > always > compile it locally, as package (ie build a .deb if you know how) or > into > /usr/local. But read on... > > All that said, I think it is a non-issue. R 4.5.0 works great on > 24.04 and > later _and that is why we offer the backport via CRAN_. > > > following the instructions on > > https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/fullREADME.html > > > > > To obtain the latest R 4.4 packages, add an entry like > > > > > > deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ > > > > but that gave me 4.5 again. so, 1) how do I get the 4.4 and 2) how > > do I > > stop the automatic upgrades > > To prevent apt and dpkg from upgrading a package, you can place a > 'hold'. See > the dpkg documentation (man dpkg) and look for hold. You pass the > package > name and the state ("hold") 'piped' to dpkg --set-selection, if I > remember > correctly. There are likely some tutorials somewhere. > > Now, given a particular set of apt repos (that is your local admin > choice > after all) you can always call 'apt-cache policy r-base-core' to see > what is > know. You will likely see r-base-core 4.4.3 still listed. You *can* > in fact > instal that from that CRAN mirror repo by giving an explicit version > argument > so > sudo apt install r-base-core=4.4.3-1.2404.0 > should work but you likely need to add additional packages there to > satisfy > apt ie > sudo apt install r-base-core=4.4.3-1.2404.0 r-base-dev=4.4.3- > 1.2404.0 > and so on. > > After this you must use the 'dpkg hold' trick to not update 4.5.0 > over 4.4.3 > again. > > Dirk > > > > thanks everybody > > stephen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
