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R: update to 4.5.2

Open qwx9 opened this issue 1 month ago • 1 comments

Testing the changes

  • I tested the changes in this PR: YES

Local build testing

  • I built this PR locally for my native architecture, (x86_64-glibc)

Following previous discussions in currently open PRs for 4.5.1 and 4.4.2, it seems like the suggestion in this comment is a good idea. Given that R and all R-* packages except one are currently almost 2.5 years out of date, requiring users to set and manage their own .libPaths or whatever, which still works, seems like a better alternative.

qwx9 avatar Nov 27 '25 00:11 qwx9

You needs to update all R packages, or at least rebuild them.

sgn avatar Dec 11 '25 03:12 sgn

@sgn I'm suggesting that all R CRAN packages be removed from void. They can be installed trivially by users on their own as indicated previously, and that will not change. Users have to install many R packages besides them either way, and providing a very small subset in this repository does not change that. Maintaining those void packages is a lot of work that clearly no one is up for. Unless someone volunteers to update and maintain all of void's R packages and keep doing it long term, they are now and will continue to be entirely useless.

qwx9 avatar Dec 14 '25 15:12 qwx9