[R-sig-Debian] [R] Installing R on ubuntu dapper

[hadley wickham]

> | > After that, try just the main R package to see what Depends: are claiming to
> | >
> | >         sudo apt-get install r-base-core
> |
> | ~: install r-base-core
> | Reading package lists... Done
> | Building dependency tree... Done
> | Package r-base-core is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> | This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> | is only available from another source
> | E: Package r-base-core has no installation candidate
>
> Sorry, may have been my thinko. r-base-core exists in my Debian breakdown of
> packages which I tend to just rebuild at work.
>
> So lets look at r-base. Do a 'apt-cache policy r-base'.  What version do you
> see?  Then try 'apt-get install r-base' and let's see what blockers exists
> there.

~: apt-cache policy r-base
r-base:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.6.1-1dapper0
  Version table:
     2.6.1-1dapper0 0
        500 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Packages
~: install r-base
Password:
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 ideas?  Is that url wrong?  Here's the relevant line from my sources.list

deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/


Hadley

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