[R] Installing R on ubuntu dapper
hadley wickham
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html, but I'm
getting the following error:
~: sudo apt-get install r-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.6.1-1dapper0) but it is not installable
Depends: r-recommended (= 2.6.1-1dapper0) but it is not
going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Hadley
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Emmanuel Charpentier
> I followed the instructions at
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html, but I'm
> getting the following error:
>
> ~: sudo apt-get install r-base
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.6.1-1dapper0) but it is not installable
> Depends: r-recommended (= 2.6.1-1dapper0) but it is not
> going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
Huh ?
Ubuntu i386 packages install with no problem. However, x86_64 is more
problematic : these packages are not built in the CRAN repositories.
IIRC, r-base is an "all architectures" packages (mostly a meta-package),
while r-base-core and r-recommended are binaries. Therefore, r-base is
indeed available, while r-base-core and r-recommended are not. Hence the
jam...
I have been able to rebuild x86-64 packages on Ubuntu Gutsy starting
from the Debian sources ; a cursory check lets me think that these
builds are correct. Let me know if you want them (no guarantees : caveat
emptor).
I plan to check them extensively and propose them to the SIG-Debian
mailing list, but this will have to wait...
HTH,
Emmanuel Charpentier
hadley wickham
Oh, yes, I keep forgetting that box is 64 bit.
> I have been able to rebuild x86-64 packages on Ubuntu Gutsy starting
> from the Debian sources ; a cursory check lets me think that these
> builds are correct. Let me know if you want them (no guarantees : caveat
> emptor).
That would be great please.
Hadley