[R-sig-Debian] Outdated r-base-core when installing on Ubuntu 14.04

[Matthew Simpson]

On Ubuntu 14.04 the following commands worked to install R 3.0.2 (after
adding Rutter's PPA):

sudo apt-get install r-base-core
sudo apt-get install r-recommended=3.0.2-1ubuntu1
sudo apt-get install r-base=3.0.2-1ubuntu1

For anyone else trying to run R on a linux distro through Crouton on a
Chromebook: there is a catch for ubuntu - when installing packages in R,
the usual window that pops up asking which R mirror you want doesn't work.
Instead, it throws an error - probably related to whatever Crouton is doing
under the hood. You can manually specify the mirror with
install.packages(pkgname, repos = 'cran mirror') of course, but that's
annoying and there is no such problem with Debian, so Debian > Ubuntu in
this case.

Matt

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Matthew Simpson <themattsimpson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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