[R] [R-sig-Debian] 3.6 on debian stretch

[Johannes Ranke]

Dear Larry,

yes, because of various factors the r-cran-* packages from the stable and 
especially the oldstable distribution are often not compatible with the 
backported r-base packages provided on CRAN. At current, buster is not 
affected, but your case shows that using stretch gives this problem.

In principle it would be nice to have a repo containing all the r-cran-* and 
r-bioc-* packages recompiled for these backports. Such a repository does exist 
for Ubuntu as far as I know (I don't use it). For Debian, such a repository 
currently does not exist.

In your situation, I think the easiest solution is to simply install caret and 
ggplot2 from within R.

Personally, I like the install.r and update.r scripts available from Dirks 
littler package. They make it possible to conveniently install and update R 
packages from source using the command line, if you have the scripts in your 
PATH.

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2019, 21:41:14 CEST schrieb Larry Martell:
> I need to run 3.6 on debian stretch - I followed the instructions here:
> 
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
> 
> and I was able to install it. But 2 packages I need,  r-cran-caret and
> r-cran-ggplot2 will not install:
> 
> # apt-get install r-cran-ggplot2
> 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-cran-ggplot2 : Depends: r-api-3
>                   Depends: r-cran-digest but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: r-cran-gtable (>= 0.1.1) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                   Depends: r-cran-plyr (>= 1.7.1) but it is not going
> to be installed
>                   Depends: r-cran-reshape2 but it is not going to be
> installed Depends: r-cran-scales (>= 0.4.1) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                   Depends: r-cran-tibble but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: r-cran-lazyeval but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to
> correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> Is there a way to get these 2 packages for my environment?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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