Now that I am at least mapping the right repository to my Debian version (doh!)
I have another question. In the installation page at
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/#debian-stretch-stable there is the
line:
"Please note that R packages from the Debian stretch distribution are not
compatible with R 3.5.x, as it provides r-api-3.5, while the stretch packages
depend on r-api-3."
Certainly a number of packages won't install with Synaptic giving the complaint
about depending on r-api-3 and not having it, exactly as that line says. It
seems that one package that gives this error, car, builds fine in R with the
usual install.packages("car") (after dealing with the curl library dependency).
Am I right that the workaround is to install all the affected packages within
R? On the very slow old laptop I'm using for this work that is taking ages and
I'm guessing that had I been able to install the debs the installation would
have been much faster.
Is there a workaround or am I right that installing within R _is_ the
workaround?
TIA (again),
Chris
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