[R] Ubuntu 2.9.2 packages broken for amd64

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Ivan,

On 17 September 2009 at 21:22, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:
| Attempt to install R 2.9.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 results in errors:
| 
| $ sudo apt-get install r-base
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... 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.
| The following information may help to resolve the situation:
| 
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|   r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.9.2-2jaunty1) but 2.9.2-2jaunty0 is to be 
| installed
|           Depends: r-recommended (= 2.9.2-2jaunty1) but it is not going to be 
| installed
| E: Broken packages
| 
| This was on amd64 system. I have tried several mirrors and the same error 
| persisted. Inspecting package repos by eye shows r-*-2.9.2-2jaunty1 packages 
| for amd64 architecture are missing while they are present for i386.

I noticed that too and spoke with Vincent and Michael -- this should get
sorted out 'soon'.  It is due to the non-binary packages being ready from the
i386 build but being dependent on the corresponding amd64 packages which are
not there yet.

As a one-off alternative, you could preview the packages we prepared for the
upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 release. See this page  
	    https://launchpad.net/~revor/+archive/ppa
for details and the sources.list entry. These contain some REvolution R
enhancements.  I run those on amd64 at work, and they do install and run just
fine :) 

Lastly, r-sig-debian is a better list for this. I just caught your post by
chance.

Regards,  Dirk

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