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

[hadley wickham]

> I am moving this to r-sig-debian, and I encourage you to subscribe there. [ If
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> contact us off-list too. ]

Thanks, and subscribed.

> Not enough information here. It could simply be something else that is not R
> related.
>
> What happens when you do
>
>         sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

~: sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Password:
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [50.9kB]
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release [50.9kB]
Get:6 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Release.gpg [189B]
Get:7 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Release [1325B]
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages [134kB]
Ign http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Sources
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Sources
Get:9 http://cran.r-project.org dapper/ Packages [6486B]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages [257kB]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages [7544B]
Get:12 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Sources [26.9kB]
Get:13 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Sources [979B]
Get:14 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Packages [84.7kB]
Get:15 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/universe Sources [11.2kB]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages [5563B]
Get:17 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Sources [71.2kB]
Get:18 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Sources [979B]
Fetched 710kB in 2s (351kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  locales
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3286kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main locales 2.3.18.8 [3286kB]
Fetched 3286kB in 5s (619kB/s)
(Reading database ... 29945 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace locales 2.3.18.7 (using .../locales_2.3.18.8_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement locales ...
Setting up locales (2.3.18.8) ...
Generating locales...
  en_AU.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_BW.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_CA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_DK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_GB.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_HK.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IE.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_IN.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_NZ.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_PH.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_SG.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_US.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZA.UTF-8... up-to-date
  en_ZW.UTF-8... up-to-date
Generation complete.
Current default timezone: 'UTC'.
Local time is now:      Mon Jan  7 14:29:11 UTC 2008.
Universal Time is now:  Mon Jan  7 14:29:11 UTC 2008.
Run 'tzconfig' if you wish to change it.


which looks ok to me.

> 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

Thanks,

Hadley

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