[R-sig-Debian] Bionic beaver repository issues

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

I can't tell what you did wrong as I can't see your setup -- and your email
is not really readable on my screen (next time please try text mode if you can).

Bionic beaver works for other people, see eg this blog post, support slides
and (primarily) video

   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2019/06/09#022_rocker_and_ppas
   http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/r4_rocker_and_ppas.pdf
   https://youtu.be/qIjWirNma-8

which shows how to install all of tidyverse and rstan, respectively, with one
commands thanks to the Rutter PPAs and Ubuntu 18.04 -- Bionic Beaver.

See below [1] for a quick demo using the same Docker container. Note that it
also does 'apt-get update' -- maybe you just miss that.  You can see the
container setup here

  https://github.com/rocker-org/rocker/blob/master/r-ubuntu/Dockerfile

which should make all this reproducible for you.

Dirk

edd using rob:~$ docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-ubuntu:18.04 bash
root using 940cde4f092f:/# apt-get update  2>&1 >/dev/null                                                    
root using 940cde4f092f:/# apt-get install r-base-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  elpa-ess r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf r-mathlib r-base-html
Recommended packages:
  r-doc-html
The following packages will be upgraded:
  r-base-core
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded.
Need to get 24.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 2,048 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter3.5/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 r-base-core amd64 3.6.0-2bionic [24.6 MB]
Fetched 24.6 MB in 1min 3s (392 kB/s)                                                                   
                                                                                                        
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 19227 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../r-base-core_3.6.0-2bionic_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking r-base-core (3.6.0-2bionic) over (3.6.0-1bionic) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Setting up r-base-core (3.6.0-2bionic) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/R/Makeconf ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/R/Renviron.site ...
root using 940cde4f092f:/#

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