I attempted to try the example in the blog but with 'bionic' instead, since I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. However, it installed from source instead of using the binary when following the instructions.
DISTRO <- 'bionic'
install.packages('dplyr', repos = sprintf('https://demo.rstudiopm.com/cran/__linux__/%s/latest', DISTRO), lib = tempdir())
Created on 2019-11-07 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)
Is the example meant to simply demo the capability with just 'xenial'? I would be interested in pursuing the package manager to deliver binaries down the line with 'bionic' support, and understand if the demo an example for just one distro to prove out how fast it works. If so, I can just demo the 'bionic' binaries at a later time.