[R-sig-Debian] Fortune ? [was: Re: Problems installing tibble (ggplot2) in R running Ubuntu 14.04]

[François Morneau]

Hello,

I think the line :

"And if you're beholden to the whateveritscalledtodayverse, it it there too"

could be a good candidate for the 'fortunes' package.

And, by the way, thank you Dirk for the R docker containers !

Regards,

François

Le 12/02/2017 à 19:15, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
> On 12 February 2017 at 12:28, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> | On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Terje Jørgensen <terjej at imr.no> wrote:
> | > Hi,
> | >
> | > I am unable to install tibble, a required package for ggplot2 in R. I am
> | > running R (version 3.3.2 ) in RStudio (version 1.0.44). My OS is ubuntu
> | > 14.04 (64 bits).
> |
> | I was able to reproduce this problem. What happened is that you
> | installed "r-cran-rcpp" from the ubuntu repositories, which is a few
> | years old, and not compatible with the cran version of 'tibble'. You
> | should either reinstall Rcpp from CRAN, or, install the development
> | version of 'tibble' which resolves the issue.
>
> Better still, use the repositories maintained by Michael to get a _wide
> variety_ of _current_ packages:
>
> 1. Over 3400 packages from CRAN ready to use as binaries:
>
>     root at 092af40cc094:/# apt-cache search r-cran- | wc -l
>     3411
>     root at 092af40cc094:/#
>
> 2. Obviously a current Rcpp (as well as the distro, here 14.04, one)
>
>     root at 092af40cc094:/# apt-cache policy r-cran-rcpp
>     r-cran-rcpp:
>       Installed: (none)
>       Candidate: 0.12.9-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1
>       Version table:
>          0.12.9-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1 0
>             500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
>          0.11.0-1 0
>             500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
>     root at 092af40cc094:/#
>
>     And if you're beholden to the whateveritscalledtodayverse, it it there too:
>
>     root at 092af40cc094:/# apt-cache policy r-cran-tibble
>     r-cran-tibble:
>       Installed: (none)
>       Candidate: 1.2-1cran1ppa0trusty0
>       Version table:
>          1.2-1cran1ppa0trusty0 0
>             500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
>     root at 092af40cc094:/#
>
>
> 3. Trivial to use:
>
>     root at 092af40cc094:/# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/marutter-*list
>     deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u/ubuntu trusty main
>     # deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u/ubuntu trusty main
>     deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu trusty main
>     # deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter/ubuntu trusty main
>     root at 092af40cc094:/#
>
> 4. Factual support for this email brought to you by a convenient Docker container:
>
>     https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/r-apt/
>     https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/tree/master/r-apt
>
>     which exists for all relevant flavours.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
>