R SIG Debian - May 2009 - I simply cannot install R on Ubuntu. I don't know why.

I don't mind using sudo apt-get update/upgrade/install buit I get into
crazy loops (hours) that clearly can't be trusted.  But when I use
Synaptic (reload/mark for install R-base) every time I get some list
of things things it want to install as well and syas "Mark" which it
does not do and when I go forward with the Synaptic install of R-base
I get this (and abort) every time:

r-base:
  Depends: r-base-core (>=2.9.0-2hardy0) but 2.6.2-2 is to be installed
 Depends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed

I cannot get a pre-install of either of these.   I got greedy a week
ago and tried to install R_2.9.0 over my R_2.6.2-2 and now I have
nothing.  I have a Dell-Mini Ubuntu 8.04 for 15 days.  I don't get it.
 Any ideas?  I'm embarrassed to say this is my second trip through on
R (to this forum).  Thanks.

Room533

Judson,

Two questions:

1)  What line did you add to sources.list to get access to R 2.9?
Sometimes the mirrors are slow to populate, and if only half the files
are available you will get a message similar to the one you have.  If
you get the same message in 12 hours, this is likely not the cause.

2) When in synaptic, go to the "r-base" entry.  There are two version
numbers, one for the installed version and one for the latest version.
 What are those version numbers?

That will help figure out the problem.

Michael


On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Judson <judson0423 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I don't mind using sudo apt-get sted.  But when I use
> Synaptic (reload/mark for install R-base) eupdate/upgrade/install buit I
get into
> crazy loops (hours) that clearly can't be truvery time I get some list
> of things things it want to install as well and syas "Mark" which
it
> does not do and when I go forward with the Synaptic install of R-base
> I get this (and abort) every time:
>
> r-base:
> ?Depends: r-base-core (>=2.9.0-2hardy0) but 2.6.2-2 is to be installed
> ?Depends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed
>
> I cannot get a pre-install of either of these. ? I got greedy a week
> ago and tried to install R_2.9.0 over my R_2.6.2-2 and now I have
> nothing. ?I have a Dell-Mini Ubuntu 8.04 for 15 days. ?I don't get it.
> ?Any ideas? ?I'm embarrassed to say this is my second trip through on
> R (to this forum). ?Thanks.
>
> Room533
>
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-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Judson <judson0423 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I don't mind using sudo apt-get update/upgrade/install buit I get into
> crazy loops (hours) that clearly can't be trusted. ?But when I use
> Synaptic (reload/mark for install R-base) every time I get some list
> of things things it want to install as well and syas "Mark" which
it
> does not do and when I go forward with the Synaptic install of R-base
> I get this (and abort) every time:
>
> r-base:
> ?Depends: r-base-core (>=2.9.0-2hardy0) but 2.6.2-2 is to be installed
> ?Depends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed
>
> I cannot get a pre-install of either of these. ? I got greedy a week
> ago and tried to install R_2.9.0 over my R_2.6.2-2 and now I have
> nothing. ?I have a Dell-Mini Ubuntu 8.04 for 15 days. ?I don't get it.
> ?Any ideas? ?I'm embarrassed to say this is my second trip through on
> R (to this forum). ?Thanks.
This should rarely happen. Can you copy paste only the lines that
start with "deb " from /etc/apt/sources.list and any other relevant
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list files. Also provide
/etc/apt/preferences, if it exists.

While you are at it, what does the following show:

$ apt-cache policy r-base r-base-core r-recommended

-- 
Prasenjit