Cannot Install R to Trusty 14.04

Timothy,

The link from stackoverflow gave some bad advice, IMO.  You should be
using the RRutter PPA, not RDev.  RDev is the where I build
not-ready-for-prime-time versions of R, and sometimes they break other
things.   RRutter is what is used to seed CRAN.  Here is the link:

https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter

I would remove the RDev PPA and install RRutter.  The newest version of R
(3.2.0) should be appearing the next 24 hours or so on the PPA.

Michael


On 04/16/2015 02:23 AM, Lu?s de Sousa wrote:

Hi Timothy,

First you could try to an auto-fix with:

sudo apt-get install -f

If it does not solve it can you please post the output of:

sudo apt-get --simulate install r-base-core

Cheers,

Lu?s

On 16 April 2015 at 05:53, Timothy Harding <hardingt at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I've followed the instructions at several different how to sites:
http://cran.r-project.org/
http://r-interface.blogspot.com/2012/04/install-r-jgr-and-
deducer-in-ubuntu.html
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28273441/receiving-
unmet-dependency-while-installing-r-base-on-ubuntu-14-10

I've installed R to various Ubuntu's before, including trusty, but
recently
it has stopped working:

dhis at tmctpsql:~$ sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  r-base-dev : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.1.3.20150410-1trusty) but it is
not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any ways around this? Does anyone else have issues with installing to a
brand new trusty install?


Timothy Harding
RPCV Vanuatu
Skype: hardingt at gmail.com
+1 (541) 632-6623

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