[R-sig-Debian] Outdated r-base-core when installing on Ubuntu 14.04

[Johannes Ranke]

Regarding Debian jessie - it turned out that Matt uses the armhf 
architecture, while the arm binaries provided on CRAN are for armel.

Johannes


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-
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