From edd @ending from debi@n@org  Mon Jul 30 17:35:10 2018
From: edd @ending from debi@n@org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 10:35:10 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Fwd: help building very old R
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On 30 July 2018 at 16:26, David Hugh-Jones wrote:
| Thanks for the tip. That could be a huge timesaver. But it lists only a
| single package for versions 0.90.1-2 ... how does that work?

The lookip is source or binary-package based. Eg here are three binaries
built from source 'r-base':

  http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/r-base-core/
  http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/r-base-dev/
  http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/r-mathlib/

etc pp

Dirk

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[Rd] Fwd: help building very old R
Dirk Eddelbuettel