[R-sig-Debian] difficulty in Ubuntu 14.04 apt-getting R 3.3.2

[Jennifer Lyon]

Thank you, the Rocker containers, or at least what is done in the Rocker
containers is exactly what I need.

Jen

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:

>
> On 19 April 2017 at 09:38, Jennifer Lyon wrote:
> | Hi:
> |
> | I have a Dockerfile, which builds an image which installed R 3.3.2 in
> | Ubuntu 14.04, but building using that Dockerfile seems to have stopped
> | working and I am unclear why.
> |
> | I believe the relevant error is:
> |
> | Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> | requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> | distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> | or been moved out of Incoming.
> | The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> |
> | The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> |  r-recommended : Depends: r-cran-cluster (>= 1.9.6-2) but it is not going
> | to be installed
> |                  Depends: r-cran-rpart (>= 3.1.20) but it is not going to
> | be installed
> |                  Depends: r-cran-survival (>= 2.13.2-1) but it is not
> going
> | to be installed
> |
> | Any help in resolving this would be appreciated.
> |
> | Additional information: while I need R 3.3.2 for historical purposes,
> when
> | I substitute 3.3.2 with 3.3.3 in the Dockerfile, the image builds
> | successfully.
> |
> | Thanks!
> |
> | Jen
> |
> | Dockerfile:
> |
> | FROM ubuntu:14.04
> |
> | RUN apt-get update && \
> |    DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y
> | --no-install-recommends software-properties-common && \
> |     apt-add-repository "deb http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu
> | trusty/" && \
> |     apt-get update && \
> |     DEBIAN_FRONTEND="noninteractive" apt-get install -y --force-yes
> | --no-install-recommends libcurl3-gnutls libcurl4-gnutls-dev libssl-dev
> | libssh2-1-dev r-base=3.3.2-1trusty0 r-base-dev=3.3.2-1trusty0
> | r-recommended=3.3.2-1trusty0 r-base-core=3.3.2-1trusty0
>
> You are pointing to the normal repo.  AFAIK it only keeps _current_
> versions
> and one cannot, as you do here, request arbitrary older versions.
>
> But take a look at Carl's 'versioned' Rocker containers which may offer you
> want you're after.
>
>   GitHub:  https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker-versioned
>   Docker:  https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/r-ver/
>
> Dirk
>
> |
> | RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
> | ENV LANG en_US.UTF-8
> | ENV LANGUAGE en_US:en
> | ENV LC_ALL en_US.UTF-8
> |
> | WORKDIR /plugin/
> |
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