R SIG Debian - Apr 2020 - CRAN R 4.0.0 for Ubuntu repos missing r-recommend dependency

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?

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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

-- 
http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org

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 at 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
>
> --
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org
>
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