Incidentally, you can see a bit more complete description at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/402560/how-do-i-install-r-on-debian-stretch-given-the-r-api-3-issue .
On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Bill Harris < bill_har...@facilitatedsystems.com> wrote: > I got a new laptop in September and installed Stretch (I had been using > Jessie), and I tried to follow the instructions on > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/, as I had multiple times in > the past: I added > > deb http://cran.wustl.edu/bin/linux/debian stretch-cran34/ > > to the end of sources.list, I followed the rest of the above directions as > of early September, as best I recall, and I only got a partial > installation. 3.4.2 is installed, but I'm limited in what packages I can > load using aptitude (I haven't tried install.packages()). From my reading, > this has to do with r-api-3 problems. If my problem isn't obvious, I'll be > glad to provide more details. > > My question is there a successful and not too difficult way to install > 3.4.2, or is deleting this R, deleting the wustl.edu backport entry, and > reinstalling R and its packages from the standard Stretch repo the best > approach at this time? > > If I should go back to the standard Stretch install, does that mean I need > to be especially cautious about installing packages with install.packages() > inside R, because that would get me a package that depended on r-api-34? I > use a few packages like rstan, rstanarm, and brms that I don't see when I > do aptitude search, and I'm not sure what that means I should do. > > Thanks, > > Bill > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian