[R-sig-Debian] Can't install R 2.15 and r-recommended on Ubuntu

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi,

Maybe you want to try the squeeze-cran repository containing R 2.15 (I
kept in order not to cause accidental breakage of add-on packages), as
opposed to the squeeze-cran3 repository:

deb http://<favorite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/

This also contains the recommended packages to go with it.

Johannes

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 04:53:47PM +0100, Kirill Müller wrote:
> 
> On 11/07/2013 04:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >On 7 November 2013 at 15:02, Kirill Müller wrote:
> >| On 11/07/2013 02:52 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >| > What does, say, 'apt-cache policy r-recommended' say?
> >| It aims at installing the most recent version, I guess. I have fired up
> >
> >Let me try again: when you run 'apt-cache policy r-recommended', does it show
> >you a version 2.15, and if so, does it have the particular version.release
> >you specified?  If it exists, you need to work with apt documentation to see
> >how to override the preference for a different (higher) version.
> The particular call returns the following on the test system:
> 
> r-recommended:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 3.0.2-1precise0
>   Version table:
>      3.0.2-1precise0 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>         500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu/
> precise/main amd64 Packages
>      3.0.1-6precise0 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      3.0.1-5precise0 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      3.0.1-3precise 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      3.0.1-1precise0precise2 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      3.0.1-1precise0 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      3.0.0-2precise 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      2.15.3-1precise0precise1 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      2.15.2-1precise0 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      2.15.1-1precise2 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      2.15.0-1precise0 0
>         500 http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
>      2.14.1-1 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe
> amd64 Packages
> 
> The package.version I have requested (=2.15.3-1precise0precise1) is
> available. However, the dependencies in r-recommended only state a
> minimum version of the dependent packages. Also, when I look at
> `apt-cache show r-cran-mass=7.3-26-1raring0` (the oldest version in
> CRAN), it tells me that it depends on r-base-core (>=
> 3.0.0-2raring). So it wouldn't even work in theory.
> 
> Is it possible to arrange to always keep, for each R version
> available in the Ubuntu archive, the most recent version of each
> "recommended" package?
> 
> >It should work in theory as you showed, but I a) never had a need for that
> >and never done it and b) don't know anybody else who did.
> Thanks for your feedback.
> 
> 
> -Kirill
> 
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