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

[Kirill Müller]

Johannes,

Thanks. Are there any pitfalls when using this on Ubuntu?


-Kirill


On 11/07/2013 05:43 PM, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> 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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