Adam,
You may find this blog post and the video instructive: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2019/06/09#022_rocker_and_ppas It illustrates how 'installing tidyverse' (or rstan) can be a single and done in under two minutes == on Linux, with the appropriate distribution and settings. In short: some have binaries prebuilt, some don't. My blog has a few post in the 'r4' section on that as well as on other approaches to this. http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/code/r4/ Now, you choose a somewhat non-standard distro. The price of that choice may indeed be that you have to install everything (R/CRAN-related) from source. Hope this helps, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ 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.
