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eddelbuettel / r2u

CRAN as Ubuntu Binaries
https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u
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How to install specific version of cran package? #31

Closed s-eiermann closed 1 year ago

s-eiermann commented 1 year ago

I'm using your docker container to run and install packages via: install.r <libs>. How can I install specific versions of the R packages? Thanks

eddelbuettel commented 1 year ago

You cannot as R and CRAN do not work that way, and neither does apt (well it kinda sorta does but we do not have indices for it).

So in short the value proposition and offer of r2u is to give you all of CRAN as it currently is fast and reliably. That is in fact fairly unique, and we do it 'across two dimensions' for the two most recent LTS releases of Ubuntu. We never claimed we would magically surface a third dimension across time. That could conceivably be done, but it a lot more work.

So ok if I close this as 'out of scope'? I still hope you find r2u of use.

s-eiermann commented 1 year ago

Ok, no problem.

The reason I'm asking is, that currently there are two packages which current versions are incompatible with each other.... There's a fix on a master branch - So I'd prob. have to manually override the installation, to fetch that package from GitHub instead? Thanks

eddelbuettel commented 1 year ago

Can you detail which packages you are having problems with? I had a little bit of that at the very beginning but the combination of a) having everything and b) the "apt pinning" made it go away completely for all my use cases.

s-eiermann commented 1 year ago

The author of fabletools has fixed an issue on his master branch, but not yet published to cran... https://github.com/tidyverts/fabletools/commit/dd9027da9c21d99b9f2c8dbb662d7ae465933e68

eddelbuettel commented 1 year ago

Ok, so you need to install that from GitHub. For which remotes::install_github() is widely used, and my containers generally have the installGithub.r wrapper from littler. That is all you need.

(There is a current, temporary misalignment between what bspm thought correct a few weeks ago and what we now think so just for now you may need to prefix it with bspm::disable() inside the r2u container. This should be fixed 'soon'.)