[R] Problem installing R 4.2 on Ubuntu 20-04

[Witold E Wolski]

Is it possible that the reason is that I have an Ubuntu for arm64 installation?
I installed R from source.

Thanks

On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 at 17:45, Micha Silver <tsvibar using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just a guess:
>
>
> On 25/07/2022 17:43, Witold E Wolski wrote:
> > I am failing to get R 4 installed on Ubuntu. I am following the
> > instructions given here:
> > https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
> >
> > These are the errors I am getting:
> > <start>
> > parallels using ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop:~/Downloads/fragpipe/bin$ sudo
> > apt install --no-install-recommends r-base
> >
> --no-install-recommends might be your problem
>
> Try running without that.
>
>
> (And also do sudo apt update first)
>
>
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> And this is why that --no-install-recommends is causing the install to
> fail:
> >   r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.2.1-1.2004.0) but it is not going
> > to be installed
> >            Depends: r-recommended (= 4.2.1-1.2004.0) but it is not
> > going to be installed
> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> > <end>
> >
> >
> > Best regards
> > Witek
> >
> >
> > --
> > Witold Eryk Wolski
> >
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> Micha Silver
> Ben Gurion Univ.
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>


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Witold Eryk Wolski