R SIG Debian - Apr 2021 - Keep Downloading R 3.6.3 on Linux Mint 20.1

The ppa for Ubuntu and Debian Is named with with ?mrutter? (maintained by
Michael Rutter). You should be able to find info in this lists archives.

David

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> On Apr 21, 2021, at 10:46 PM, Facundo Mu?oz <facundo.munoz at
cirad.fr> wrote:
> 
> ?Dear E Tam,
> 
> I've been using R v4.* on Linux Mint 20.1 without any trouble.
> 
> I think the problem can be in your deb line, which uses Mint's codename
> "ulyssa". You probably have to change it to "focal".
Depending on how
> you set this up, you can do it from Mint's "Software Sources"
gui
> application, under "Additional Repositories". You should find an
entry
> for the R-project.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> ?acu.-
> 
> 
>> On 22/04/2021 05:49, E Tam wrote:
>> To whom it may concern,
>> I have been trying forever to get R installed on a computer running
Linux Mint 20.1, but nothing works. I went to CRAN
(https://mirrors.nics.utk.edu/cran/) and followed all of the instructions, but
it installed R 3.6.3! This would not be a problem since I only need to do some
relatively simple things, except every library has updated to R 4.0 and nothing
from 3.6 can be used with 4.0, and vice versa. I can use base R just fine in
RStudio, but any attempts to downloads libraries fail.
>> 
>> I asked for help on the Linux Mint Forums
(https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=347119&p=2005975#p2005975),
but we did not make a lot of progress. What we figured out what that on the
official instructions, they are missing a step. [sudo apt-update] needs to be
run after [add-apt-repository ppa...]. I also needed to run [apt-get update
--allow-insecure-repositories], but I have no idea why CRAN's repository
would not be secure. Adding these steps gets me the error,
>> Err:5 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu ulyssa-cran40/
Packages
>>  404  Not Found [IP: 13.249.183.20 443]
>> Any help figuring this out will be much appreciated. 
>> 
>> From,        -E
>> 
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On 22 April 2021 at 00:03, David Winsemius wrote:
| The ppa for Ubuntu and Debian

Ubuntu, and likely useable on derivarives like Mint but *not* Debian.

You cannot (generally) mix Debian and Ubuntu. (Some vendors do for things like
Chrome as .deb as all dependencies are in that package; but normally packages
specify exactly what they need and the versions can be different in various
delicate ways, so in general "don't do this").

Dirk

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