using R-devel independently of sid packages

| Hi,
| 
| I'd like to run R-devel in a sid system that has the corresponding R
| packages installed (most of them).  I'd be using this primarily for
| testing how packages that I maintain would build and check there.  I
| know this is available via http://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check, but
| in some cases I need more control.  I thought I'd have R-devel trunk
| live in /usr/local/src/R-devel, and then run it like:
| 
| R_LIBS_USER=/usr/local/lib/R-devel/site-library /usr/local/src/R-devel/bin/R
| 
| so that I can have packages built with R-devel in a different directory
| from those that the Debian packages use (/usr/local/lib/R/site-library).
| 
| What is good Debianish practice for running R-devel with an independent
| local library for it?

In essence, I do what you do:

 - keep r-devel from svn 

 - configure; make; make install it  to a directory in /usr/local/lib

 - keep the binaries out of the $PATH and use shell wrappers and variables
   to launch it 

Not ideal, but gets the job done and I won't have time do anything fancier.
If you wanted to, you could wrap the above into a local .deb package too.

Dirk

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