Welcome to the 35th post in the ravishingly rabiant R recommendations, or R4. Today’s post is about apt and R tools.

Many of us have been running RStudio off our local machines for as long as binaries have been provided. Which is by now probably a bit over a decade. Time flies.

And as nice it is to have matching binaries, in my case in the .deb format used on Debian or Ubuntu, it is wee bit a …