R SIG Debian - Feb 2016 - Dependency failures on installing older R packages in Ubuntu

I?ve been trying to install the CRAN Ubuntu r-base-3.1.2 package on Ubuntu
14.04, and I keep getting the following failure:

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vagrant at default-ubuntu-1404:/etc$ sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.2-*

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Selected version '3.1.2-1trusty0' (CRAN:14.04/trusty [all]) for
'r-base'

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 : Depends: r-recommended (= 3.1.2-1trusty0) but 3.2.3-6trusty0 is to be
installed

          Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed

          Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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In my apt/sources I have the line


deb     http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/


Any ideas?


Jordan


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On 02/22/2016 07:21 PM, Jordan Dawe wrote:
> I?ve been trying to install the CRAN Ubuntu r-base-3.1.2 package on Ubuntu
14.04, and I keep getting the following failure:
>
> ----------
>
> vagrant at default-ubuntu-1404:/etc$ sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.2-*
>
> Reading package lists... Done
>
> Building dependency tree
>
> Reading state information... Done
>
> Selected version '3.1.2-1trusty0' (CRAN:14.04/trusty [all]) for
'r-base'
>
> 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 : Depends: r-recommended (= 3.1.2-1trusty0) but 3.2.3-6trusty0 is
to be installed
>
>            Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
>
>            Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed
>
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> ----------
>
>
> In my apt/sources I have the line
>
>
> deb     http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Jordan
Jordan,

I believe if you are going to install an older version or R, you need to 
specify that all the old packages need to be installed.  I would 
recommend pinning the all the r-base related packages that you need. 
Here is a link with information on pinning:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto

Michael
-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
Associate Professor of Statistics
Department Chair, Mathematics
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
4205 College Drive
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
mar36 at psu.edu

On 23 February 2016 at 00:21, Jordan Dawe wrote:
| I?ve been trying to install the CRAN Ubuntu r-base-3.1.2 package on Ubuntu
14.04, and I keep getting the following failure:
| 
| ----------
| 
| vagrant at default-ubuntu-1404:/etc$ sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.2-*

That is a version that was released well over a year ago. Why not R 3.2.3 ?

| Reading package lists... Done
| 
| Building dependency tree
| 
| Reading state information... Done
| 
| Selected version '3.1.2-1trusty0' (CRAN:14.04/trusty [all]) for
'r-base'
| 
| 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 : Depends: r-recommended (= 3.1.2-1trusty0) but 3.2.3-6trusty0 is to
be installed

apt is telling you that is has 3.2.3. Why don't you not use it?

We are volunteers. We do promise that you can install ANY combinations of ALL
packages at ANY time.  We work hard to give you the current packages, reliably.

Dirk

| 
|           Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
| 
|           Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed
| 
| E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
| 
| ----------
| 
| 
| In my apt/sources I have the line
| 
| 
| deb     http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/
| 
| 
| Any ideas?
| 
| 
| Jordan
| 
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On 02/22/2016 07:48 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>
> On 23 February 2016 at 00:21, Jordan Dawe wrote: | I?ve been trying
> to install the CRAN Ubuntu r-base-3.1.2 package on Ubuntu 14.04, and
> I keep getting the following failure: | | ---------- | |
> vagrant at default-ubuntu-1404:/etc$ sudo apt-get install
> r-base=3.1.2-*
>
> That is a version that was released well over a year ago. Why not R
> 3.2.3 ?
>
> | Reading package lists... Done | | Building dependency tree | |
> Reading state information... Done | | Selected version
> '3.1.2-1trusty0' (CRAN:14.04/trusty [all]) for 'r-base' | |
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 : Depends: r-recommended (>
3.1.2-1trusty0) but 3.2.3-6trusty0 is to be installed
>
> apt is telling you that is has 3.2.3. Why don't you not use it?
>
> We are volunteers.
>We do promise that you can install ANY
> combinations of ALL packages at ANY time.
If that is not a typo (do *NOT*) then I think you are working too hard. 
I know for a fact that all combinations of all packages cannot work 
together.
> We work hard to give you the current packages, reliably.
This is admirable, and enough I think.

Paul
>
> Dirk
>
> | |           Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be
> installed | |           Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to
> be installed | | E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken
> packages. | | ---------- | | | In my apt/sources I have the line | |
> | deb     http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ trusty/ | | | Any
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>
>apt is telling you that is has 3.2.3. Why don't you not use it?
>
>We are volunteers. We do promise that you can install ANY combinations of
>ALL
>packages at ANY time.  We work hard to give you the current packages,
>reliably.
>
>Dirk
We are operating an R server in a business production environment, and
thus we wish to maintain package stability.  I understand you are
volunteers, and thank you for your efforts.  Since the previous versions
of these packages are available on your repository, I mistakenly thought
you intended there to be backward compatibility.

Thank-you for your prompt response.

Jordan
>

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