Re: Bug#617296: RFP: rstudio -- IDE for GNU R

[Jan Groenewald <jan@aims.ac.za>]

FWIW I repackage the stable debs (built on Ubuntu 1204) from https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/  into a PPA here https://launchpad.net/~aims/+archive/ubuntu/aims-desktop so that my users install via apt and get updates. I just unpack their deb and repack it as a binary package with dependencies added. Only the desktop version (not server version) as we need this to work on student laptops while offline.

Would love to see rstudio in Debian.

Regards,

Jan

On 21 September 2015 at 13:26, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> wrote:

FWIW I am very good and close friends with the RStudio founders and several
of their engineers.  But most (power R) users I know (myself included)
happily use their dailies from http://www.rstudio.org/download/daily/

It would be a lot of work to get (and keep) this packaged as RStudio found
over the years to often require newer-than-packaged tools like Qt, Boost,
and more. While it would be nice to see it packaged, maybe we have other more
urgent tasks.  Not sure.

Good luck anyway!

Dirk

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