[R-sig-Debian] Outdated r-base-core when installing on Ubuntu 14.04

[Matthew Simpson]

Ok, first I poked around the ubuntu tablet and related PPAs to see if I
could find one with an ARM port of R, but no luck. Next I tried a debian
install - jessie is supported on Crouton and it installs and runs basically
without a hitch. But I run into the same problem installing R - using only
a cran debian source and none of Rutter's PPAs. Now r-base-core is only
available up to 3.1.1-1. Attempting sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.1-1
yields a complaint from apt that r-recommended 3.1.1-1 is needed but won't
be installed, though sudo apt-cache showpdg r-recommended shows 3.1.1-1 as
available.

This left me basically where I was with ubuntu, but I tried something here
that I didn't try there - I manually tried to install r-recommended
3.1.1-1. It complained about a dependency, so I manually tried installing
the right version of the dependency, which complained about a dependency,
etc, until I got something to install. Through this process here are the
things I installed, I believe in this order:

sudo apt-get install r-base-core=3.1.1-1
sudo apt-get install r-cran-boot=1.3-13-1
sudo apt-get install r-cran-codetools=0.2-9-1
sudo apt-get install r-recommended=3.1.1-1
sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.1-1

This got R installed correctly. While it's still not the most updated
version, it's a version I can probably live with considering this isn't my
main machine.

I'm going to try the same thing on the ubuntu install to see if I can get R
3.0.2 installed there - r-recommended 3.0.2 was available, so perhaps
manually installing the correct dependencies in order will get the job
done. I'll report back to say whether this worked either way.

Thanks for the help,
Matt

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de>
wrote:

>
> Am Montag, 21. März 2016, 13:31:44 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> > On 21 March 2016 at 13:18, Matthew Simpson wrote:
> > | It may be significant that my chromebook has an ARM processor. I don't
> > | know
> > | about the details of how this works, but perhaps some pieces of the R
> > | install haven't been ported to the appropriate architecture?
> >
> > Bahh. I am clearly not awake.  Should have realized that.
>
> Neither was I.
>
> >
> > That is why you had r-doc-html, r-recommended, ... etc which are
> binary=all.
> > On CRAN you will /only/ find i386 and amd64.  On the Ubuntu PPAs you
> /may/
> > find arm builds as Ubuntu supports them for their tablet plans etc pp.
>
> I am providing arm binaries for Debian wheezy and Debian jessie on CRAN,
> maybe
> this would be an option?
>
> Cheers, Johannes
>
> >
> > As such, the Dockerfile I sent you is more relevant than the CRAN README.
> >
> > Good luck, Dirk
>
>

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