[R-sig-Debian] Help for sources.list

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 5 June 2010 at 22:33, (Ted Harding) wrote:
| Well, I seem to have zapped everything!
| Having achieved the breakthrough to R-cran, I then decided to
| do a full upgrade from R-2.7 to R-2.11, so I first removed all
| the old stuff. Then I marked r-base 2-11-1 for installation.
| 
| The immediate reaction was that it would not be installed, because
| it depends on r-base-core "which is not going to be installed".
| Tne, marking r-base-core, I get:
| 
| r-base-core:
|  Depends: tcl8.5 (>=8.5.0) but it is not installable
|  Depends: tk8.5 (>=8.5.0) but it is not installable
|  Recommends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed
|  Recommends: r-base-dev but it is not going to be installed
| 
| And then, searching for "tcl", I find that the latest available
| version on Debian Lenny is tcl8.4, so tcl8.5 cannot be installed!

Where/how did you find that?  

Googling for tcl8.5 lenny lead me to 

   http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tcl8.5

which itself leads to 

   http://packages.debian.org/lenny/tcl8.5

suggesting that a simple

   sudo apt-get install tcl8.5 tk8.5

would do the trick.

Grain of salt alert as I don't run lenny.

Cheers, StillNotDuncan

| 
| Well, I could always try installing R-2.10, which I could be
| happy with. But there is no link whatever to earlier versions
| of R (pre-2.11) that I can find in the Debian section of CRAN.
| 
| So, what next? Compile from source from
|   http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/src/base/R-2/R-2.10.1.tar.gz
| ?
| And what about supplementary packages? How to check for compatibility
| with R-2.10?
| 
| With thanks,
| Ted.
| 
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| Date: 05-Jun-10                                       Time: 22:33:00
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  Regards, Dirk