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r-base-dev not installing in Ubuntu 16.04

I have recently re-installed R on my Ubuntu system to get R 3.5 and found
this to have worked:

# you may need to remove incumbent repos e.g. with:
sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:marutter/rrutter

# add new repos
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter3.5 # for base R
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:marutter/c2d4u4.5  # for pkgs - this saved me
lots of time installing my set-up

At the end of it these are the only R-related repos I have:

apt policy | grep 3.5

# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter3.5/ubuntu xenial/main i386
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-rrutter3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=RRutter
v3.5,c=main,b=i386
# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/rrutter3.5/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-rrutter3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=RRutter
v3.5,c=main,b=amd64
# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u3.5/ubuntu xenial/main i386
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-c2d4u3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=cran2deb4ubuntu_3.5,c=main,b=i386
# 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/marutter/c2d4u3.5/ubuntu xenial/main amd64
Packages
#     release
v=16.04,o=LP-PPA-marutter-c2d4u3.5,a=xenial,n=xenial,l=cran2deb4ubuntu_3.5,c=main,b=amd64

Hope this helps. Please add-to this advice anyone who's more experienced
than me in this.

Thanks to all involved in getting this working and documented.

Robin

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:22 AM, Syed Murtuza baker <
syed.murtuzabaker at manchester.ac.uk> wrote: