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

[Alison Smith]

Dear Dirk (other users and Dave)

PART 1
I finally was able to install R.3.5.1, however, I had to invoke the following

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9

As this skin of Ubuntu 18.04 (Peppermint) does not seem to allow access to the bionic-cran35 repository unless this key is set and added to the system. 
This is odd - well for me anyway, as for other skins of Ubunto say 16.04 (Peppermint) I do not have to do this, though when I do sudo apt-get update it does complain bitterly about the key not being validated but continues?

Perhaps this would be a useful addition to the install notes on the R webpage.
Just a thought - unless I have done something really silly.

PART 2
On another related matter. (If I may beg for assistance)
I am a co-developer of an R package which is alas not open source - even I require a license key.
There is some setting which is stopping the Peppermint browser from allowing the RLM to access the session in R
See screenshot and also the page below for the way to install

https://www.vsni.co.uk/resources/vsni-new-licensing

If this is too much to ask for any ideas to work around then please ignore
thanks again
Brian (not Alison Smith- I am married to Alison and assisting with her IT matters)




Regards
Alison

 

Alison Smith
Principal Research Fellow
National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA)
School of Mathematics & Applied Statistics
Faculty of Engineering & Information Sciences
Building 39C Room 261
University of Wollongong NSW 2522
M: 0417 947 115
E: alismith using uow.edu.au
W: http://niasra.uow.edu.au/index.html



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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <dirk.eddelbuettel using gmail.com> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, 24 July 2018 2:59 AM
To: Alison Smith
Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu issue with 18.04 Bionic Beaver

Alison,

It would be preferable to have follow-up emails on-list as welll...

On 23 July 2018 at 07:09, Alison Smith wrote:
| Hi Dirk
| thanks for looking at this problem for me
| I ran the commands you ran and here are the results.
| I am at a loss to know where this distro is finding 3.4.4????

I cannot tell from here either.  You did run 'sudo apt-get updare', right?

Dirk

| cheers
|
|
|
| alison using alison-GWT ~ $ ag cran /etc/apt/
| /etc/apt/sources.list
| 52:deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/
|
| alison using alison-GWT ~ $ cd /etc/apt
| alison using alison-GWT /etc/apt $ ls
| apt.conf.d   preferences.d  sources.list.d     trusted.gpg.d
| preferences  sources.list   sources.list.save
|
| alison using alison-GWT /etc/apt $ cd sources.list.d/
| alison using alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ ls
| mendeleydesktop.list       peppermint.list
| mendeleydesktop.list.save  peppermint.list.save
|
| alison using alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ lsb_release -a
| No LSB modules are available.
| Distributor ID:       Peppermint
| Description:  Peppermint 9 Nine
| Release:      9
| Codename:     bionic
|
| alison using alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ apt-cache policy r-base-core
| r-base-core:
|   Installed: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1
|   Candidate: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1
|   Version table:
|  *** 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500
|         500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
|         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
| alison using alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $
|
|
| Regards
| Alison
|
|
|
| Alison Smith
| Principal Research Fellow
| National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA)
| School of Mathematics & Applied Statistics
| Faculty of Engineering & Information Sciences
| Building 39C Room 261
| University of Wollongong NSW 2522
| M: 0417 947 115
| E: alismith using uow.edu.au
| W: http://niasra.uow.edu.au/index.html
|
|
|
| ________________________________________
| From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <dirk.eddelbuettel using gmail.com> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>
| Sent: Monday, 23 July 2018 12:43 PM
| To: Alison Smith
| Cc: r-sig-debian using r-project.org
| Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu issue with 18.04 Bionic Beaver
|
| 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/
| |
| | 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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