[R-sig-Debian] Dependency failures on installing older R packages in Ubuntu

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 February 2016 at 00:21, Jordan Dawe wrote:
| I’ve been trying to install the CRAN Ubuntu r-base-3.1.2 package on Ubuntu 14.04, and I keep getting the following failure:
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| vagrant at default-ubuntu-1404:/etc$ sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.2-*

That is a version that was released well over a year ago. Why not R 3.2.3 ?

| Reading package lists... Done
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| Building dependency tree
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| Reading state information... Done
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| Selected version '3.1.2-1trusty0' (CRAN:14.04/trusty [all]) for 'r-base'
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| Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
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| requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
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| distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
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| or been moved out of Incoming.
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| The following information may help to resolve the situation:
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| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
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|  r-base : Depends: r-recommended (= 3.1.2-1trusty0) but 3.2.3-6trusty0 is to be installed

apt is telling you that is has 3.2.3. Why don't you not use it?

We are volunteers. We do promise that you can install ANY combinations of ALL
packages at ANY time.  We work hard to give you the current packages, reliably.

Dirk

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|           Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
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|           Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed
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| E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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| In my apt/sources I have the line
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| deb     http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/
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| Any ideas?
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| Jordan
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