Why is rstudio not in Ubuntu repo or PPA?
Yes, a PPA would definitely be great and we'll look into doing that soon. Dirk, you can avoid some of the scraping you are doing in those scripts via the URLs here (which are redirects to the latest stable/preview/daily versions): https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/203842428-Getting-the-newest-RStudio-builds
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:39 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
As for non-manual updates, I have been using two scripts for a few years: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/inst/examples/getRStudioDesktop.r https://github.com/eddelbuettel/littler/blob/master/inst/examples/getRStudioServer.r They are part of the littler package (in Debian and Ubuntu, and on CRAN) and get tweaked / updated as the base URLs change. Currently hardwired for the system I use (Ubuntu, amd64) but easy to generalize. That said, a PPA would be preferable as apt and friends are of course perfectly capable to 'sort' among available versions, download and install. Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org