packaging a parallel R

[Jonathon Love <jon@thon.love>]

hi,

i'm wanting to create a deb package for a parallel R installation.

the software i'm working toward packaging, JASP, has some issues with
the versions of R from CRAN, and i'd like to provide a parallel version
of R (based on the older ubuntu versions) that JASP can use, and make it
available from my PPA.

this is also nice, because it means i can provide consistent R versions
across, say, ubuntu versions, without forcing users to use a particular
version.

i suspect this is at odds with the debian packaging philosophy, but how
else does one handle these compatibility issues?

anyhow, i'm having difficulty modifying the existing source package to
install to a different location.

i figure all i would need to do is add to r-base-core.dirs the lines:

usr/lib/JASP
usr/lib/JASP/R

and to r-base-core.install the lines:

usr/lib/R/* usr/lib/JASP/R
usr/share/* usr/lib/JASP/

and the files would be installed to the appropriate location (perhaps as
well as to the old location).

but when i `dpkg -c` the resulting file, none of its contents are at the
new location.

any tips on what i'm doing wrong?

with thanks

jonathon

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