Changing R release to legacy version

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#1

Hello all,

I am needing to change my current running R version (4.3) to an older version (4.2 or 4.1.2). I have not found any useful information online on how to do this. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 and any tutorials on how it could be done don't work on my system or IDE.

Thanks.

#2

Although it's possible to compile an earlier version from source (I've done it when apt was lagging), it's inadvisable from a sysadm perspective. The lagging problem is gone, so the drill from the terminal

sudo apt-get remove r-base-core
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base=4.2.*
sudo apt-mark hold r-base
R --version
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