[R-sig-Debian] Cannot Install R to Trusty 14.04

[Timothy Harding]

That fixed it! Thanks Michael!:
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:marutter/rdev

Then I reran:
sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

And it went to town. Thanks again.

Timothy Harding
RPCV Vanuatu
Skype: hardingt at gmail.com
+1 (541) 632-6623

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 6:55 AM, Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu> wrote:

> Timothy,
>
> The link from stackoverflow gave some bad advice, IMO.  You should be
> using the RRutter PPA, not RDev.  RDev is the where I build
> not-ready-for-prime-time versions of R, and sometimes they break other
> things.   RRutter is what is used to seed CRAN.  Here is the link:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter
>
> I would remove the RDev PPA and install RRutter.  The newest version of R
> (3.2.0) should be appearing the next 24 hours or so on the PPA.
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 04/16/2015 02:23 AM, Luís de Sousa wrote:
>
>> Hi Timothy,
>>
>> First you could try to an auto-fix with:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install -f
>>
>> If it does not solve it can you please post the output of:
>>
>> sudo apt-get --simulate install r-base-core
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Luís
>>
>> On 16 April 2015 at 05:53, Timothy Harding <hardingt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've followed the instructions at several different how to sites:
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/
>>> http://r-interface.blogspot.com/2012/04/install-r-jgr-and-
>>> deducer-in-ubuntu.html
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28273441/receiving-
>>> unmet-dependency-while-installing-r-base-on-ubuntu-14-10
>>>
>>> I've installed R to various Ubuntu's before, including trusty, but
>>> recently
>>> it has stopped working:
>>>
>>> dhis at tmctpsql:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
>>> 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.
>>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>>
>>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>   r-base-dev : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.1.3.20150410-1trusty) but it is
>>> not going to be installed
>>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>>>
>>> Any ways around this? Does anyone else have issues with installing to a
>>> brand new trusty install?
>>>
>>>
>>> Timothy Harding
>>> RPCV Vanuatu
>>> Skype: hardingt at gmail.com
>>> +1 (541) 632-6623
>>>
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