[R-sig-Debian] CRAN R 4.0.0 for Ubuntu repos missing r-recommend dependency

[Greg Siemon]

Hi Dirk,

Thanks for the suggested workarounds. This was just a VM I had spun up so I
could test R4.0.0. I'm happy to wait for Michael to fix it when he has time.

Greg

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 13:10, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 28 April 2020 at 12:05, Greg Siemon wrote:
> | I noticed that R 4.0.0 is now available for ubuntu on CRAN. I attempted
> to
> | do a clean install on 18.04 using:
> |
> | sudo apt install r-base
> |
> | after adding
> |
> | deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/
> |
> | to /etc/apt/sources.list.
> |
> | Unfortunately, apt reports that r-recommend is a dependency and it won't
> be
> | installed. Upon inspecting the R4.0 repos r-recommend is missing not only
> | for bionic but also for xenial and focal. It is exists for the 3.5 Repos
> | and seems to exist in the Debian R4.0 variants. Perhaps it was missed or
> is
> | it still syncing across?
>
> Thanks for catching that. It is likely a simple oversight which Michael
> will
> fix shortly as the package does get created.
>
> In the meantime you can try to not install 'r-base' but just 'r-base-core'
> in
> order avoid r-recommended. Or you could try to manually inject it from my
> ppa.
> or even add that PPA for a day or two:
>
>    https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/r-4.0
>
> This PPA should probably not be used instead of the CRAN mirrored one run
> by
> Michael but may help you in this current situation.
>
> Dirk
>
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