[R-sig-Debian] not able to install R version 2.13.1

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 31 August 2011 at 00:05, kirti rajagopalan wrote:
| I am trying to install R version 2.13.1 on Ubuntu. I get the following error
| when I type the command sudo apt-get install r-base
| 
| I have modified /etc/apt/sources.list as well as run the command  "sudo
| apt-get update" prior to running this.
| 
| Please help!
| 
| 
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... 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 resolve the situation:
| 
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|   r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.13.1-1maverick2) but 2.6.2-2 is to be
| installed
|           Depends: r-recommended (= 2.13.1-1maverick2) but it is not going
| to be installed
| E: Broken packages

R 2.6.2 is suspicious. Are you running a __very__ old version of Ubuntu?
Only the last few releases are supported, in other words the repository
assumes that you are at least somewhat current.

Dirk

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