r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04

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Subject: 	Re: [R-sig-Debian] r-base installation fails on Ubuntu 14.04
Date: 	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 13:07:44 -0700
From: 	Barnet Wagman <bdwgen at gmail.com>
To: 	Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>

Lastly, and please don't take this the wrong way: I think I am helping way
more people like you who for one reason or other insist on older / frozen
system like 14.04 but then desire newer software.  Simply running _current_
Ubuntu and upgrading every six months is IMHO much easier.

Are suggesting upgrading to Ubuntu 15 or just running apt-get upgrade or
apt-get dist-upgrade (which I've done).  Ubuntu 14.04 is the latest LTS
version, which is probably why a lot of people are not going to 15.


PS Inadvertently sent this to Dirk instead of list.  Sorry.