Fun and educational post: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2017/12/13/#013_faster_package_installation_two

Installation time is not really an issue for it, it would be cool if we could detect if a binary package is available and then install that.

@eddelbuettel: Is it possible to get the information whether an R package is available as a Debian binary from somewhere? Maybe some clever apt cache search?