[R] problem installing R on ubuntu

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Horace Tso <Horace.Tso at pgn.com> wrote:
> Following the official instructions to install R on ubuntu 10.04, I issued this command on the prompt,
>
> sudo apt-get install r-base

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.12.1-1hardy0) but 2.10.1-2 is to be installed
>          Depends: r-recommended (= 2.12.1-1hardy0) but 2.10.1-2 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> Note I already have 2.10.1 installed.

 Ubuntu 10.4 is Lucid Lynx, so I'm slightly worried why hardy is
mentioned in the error. Is this a poorly upgraded machine from Hardy?


Barry