[R-sig-Debian] Suspected Bug with " bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/" installation

[John Wilkinson]

Dear r-sig Debian list,

I subscribe to the 'r-help' forum but as requested on the "Download and
Install" section of CRAN I am reporting a suspected bug on the

   " bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/"

installation binaries, I show an extract from my Ubuntu(dapper)
terminal console below----

# Attempted unsuccessful installation copy from terminal--

root at ubup:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get update
root at ubup:/etc/apt# sudo apt-get install r-base

..........downloaded text etcetera........................

.......... downloaded text etcetera....................
"
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
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likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report
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against that package should be filed.
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The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.

  r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.7.2-1dapper0)
but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: r-recommended (= 2.7.2-1dapper0)
but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
"
#end of terminal quote (under scored text added by me).
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^
My fist unsuccessful attempt was from the mirror
http://cran.uk.r-project.org   (29th August update)

I noticed that the CRAN site was more upto-date so my second failed attempt
was (from changed rescources.list) to--
http://cran.r-project.org       (1st September update)

I received the identical messages (quoted above) in both cases.

I also noticed,later, that 'synaptic' would not allow me to select
 "r-base" alone and its icon was not dark green as I expected; having
successfully installed 'Ubuntu-dapper-drake' on previous occaisions using
the same regular installation code.

It seems to me as though 'r-base' is behaving as a wrapper rather tnan a
stand-alone installation binary.

Can you help me with this download/installation  please?

John Wilkinson
[jnwilks at btinternet.com]