Joshua,
Doing this well "horizontally" (across different OSs even though for just one domain, like CRAN and R) is difficult. We have decent "vertical" solutions (with one OS / distro) for (at least some) use / deployment cases as I show in a brief blog post and video here http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2019/06/09#022_rocker_and_ppas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIjWirNma-8&t=19s Installing either 'tidyverse' or 'rstan' reduces to a single 'apt-get install' command invocation which installs everything needed in a minute or two. In a vertical stack, we can control for other OS-specific dependencies which is powerful. But it doesn't span across OSs. Covering installations both "horizontally" and "vertically" is hard. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel