[R-sig-Debian] Announcing cran2deb4ubuntu for R 3.5.0

[Michael Rutter]

On 05/27/2018 08:08 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 27 May 2018 at 12:56, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> | Thanks Michael!
> 
> Seconded!

You're welcome.

> | One more issue I ran into:
> |
> | apt-get install r-cran-rgdal
> |
> | The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> |  r-cran-rgdal : Depends: gdal-abi-2-1-0 but it is not installable
> |                 Depends: libgdal20 (>= 2.0.1) but it is not installable
> | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> Which flavour / distribution is that on?

Likely Trusty.  You need to add the ubuntugis-stable PPA as well 
(https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa).  Nothing related 
to gdal builds based on stock Trusty.  Many packages requires
gdal >= 2.1.  This solves a bunch of issues.

Michael
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