[R-sig-Debian] Outdated r-base-core when installing on Ubuntu 14.04

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 21 March 2016 at 16:37, Matthew Simpson wrote:
| 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.

You can set this in ~/.Rprofile or /etc/R/Rprofile.site:

local({
    r <- getOption("repos")
    r["CRAN"] <- "https://cran.rstudio.com"
    options(repos = r)
})

( I tend to also set additional drat repositories so I also have
    r["eddelbuettel"] <- "https://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat"
    r["ghrr"] <- "https://ghrr.github.io/drat"
in there but that is options. )

But having CRAN preset makes the question go away.

Dirk

| 
| 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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