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r-api-3 with R 3.5.2. on Stretch: is there a workaround?

3 messages · Chris Evans, Johannes Ranke

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Chris Evans
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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
Johannes Ranke
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Chris,

yes, the workaround is to install from within R. The alternative would be to 
increase the coverage of this repo, as currently mainly the recommended 
packages are supported. Another alternative would be to create a new, richer 
repo...

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Montag, 21. Januar 2019, 13:45:52 CET schrieb Chris Evans:

  
    

      
      
    

  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

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Thanks for confirming Johannes.  I take it that the "new, richer ..." option would be a lot of work.  I'm happy to let this old laptop grind through.  There's the silver lining for me that when I did this install.packages() for pretty much the same list of packages on the server it ran through it pretty fast so it's nice that the laptop is reminding me how fast the server is!

Very best to all,

Chris

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