Dear Dirk,
Am 11.04.22 um 16:13 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
On 11 April 2022 at 16:00, Paul Menzel wrote: | Thank you very much for these suggestions. It looks like schroot | requires root privileges. But it’s a nice fallback alternative to still | use the Debian packages. So does Docker if you wrap Docker around a base R image. It's a seriously important technology, I cannot recommend enough that you look into it.
Yes. In this case, it might be too big a hammer. Being able to install packages to a different root, and having a way to manipulate the PATH with a wrapper script R-4.1 or so, might be in the end less complicated.
GNU Guix, though not using Debian packages but packages the things itself, seems to be able to do that.
| > | Dirk (the r-base maintainer), has probably other good (and more modern) | > | > Both 'simpler' (just pick a directory, and point to it via $PATH or directly; | > this what R Core does) or 'fancier' via Docker. It all works. | | Unfortunately, my search engine foo failed me to find 'simpler' and | 'fancier'. It’d be awesome if you could point me to the project pages. https://www.rocker-project.org/ "How to use Docker with R" gets me 35 million hits on Google. I have a number of blog posts on it (search with 'site: dirk.eddelbuettel.com') as well as talks and slides. Maybe start with this from a (virtual) talk in Cologne: https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/cologneRUG2020.pdf
I think, I see the misunderstanding. I thought the single quotes meant, that *simpler* and *fancier* are commands for the mentioned purposes – which made sense to me, as the end both on *r* (simpleR and fancieR). Now I think they are just adjectives?
| Thank you for the hint. In the future, I am going to direct my question | there. Please do. I am closing this now.
Yes, thank you. Kind regards, Paul
