[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu issue with 18.04 Bionic Beaver

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 23 July 2018 at 02:08, Alison Smith wrote:
| Dear Debian persons
| 
| I would like enquire about whether the repository
| 
| deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/
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| I tried to follow the instructions and I cannot get R3.5.1 - I get R3.4.4???

Works for me on multiple machines:

  edd using rob:~$ lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  Release:	18.04
  Codename:	bionic
  edd using rob:~$ apt-cache policy r-base-core
  r-base-core:
    Installed: 3.5.1-1bionic
    Candidate: 3.5.1-1bionic
    Version table:
   *** 3.5.1-1bionic 500
          500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       3.5.0-1bionic 500
          500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages
       3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
  edd using rob:~$ 

Make sure you remove any old entries / competing entries in /etc/apt/source*:

  edd using rob:~$ ag cran /etc/apt/
  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cran.list
  1:deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ # disabled on upgrade to bionic
  edd using rob:~$ 

Here the bionic-cran35 entry is the only CRAN entry I have.

| I have been able to install R3.5.1 on Ubuntu 16.02 using the xenial-cran35/ repository & so not sure if the bionic link is up to date?

Should be. You can also poke 'by hand' with a browser...

Dirk

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