It's really nice that Debian/Ubuntu have a bunch of #Rstats CRAN and @Bioconductor packages precompiled and ready to install with `apt install`. Saves so much time over building everything form source with `install.packages()`. packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/…
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Replying to @michaelhoffman @Bioconductor
Yes. Better yet, `install.packages()` can pull in .deb binaries (!!) with over 5k Ubuntu LTS binaries, or, for those who prefer Fedora or OpenUSE, even ~ 16k binaries. Pre-made, with proper depends. See eg arxiv.org/abs/2103.08069 and the useR talk by @Enchufa2 and me

Binary R Packages for Linux: Past, Present and Future

Pre-compiled binary packages provide a convenient way of efficiently distributing software that has been adopted by most Linux package management systems. However, the heterogeneity of the Linux...

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Jul 27, 2021 · 3:42 PM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel @Bioconductor @Enchufa2
Cool! Is bspm how I do this on Debian? Sorry, having a little trouble figuring this out. github.com/Enchufa2/bspm
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