R SIG Debian - Dec 2025 - missing r-cran-lattice for noble-cran40

Hi,

while installing R 4.5.2 according to the instructions at 
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/fullREADME.html on a machine 
running 24.04 LTS (noble), I noticed that there is no package available 
for r-cran-lattice in the noble-cran40. So, the r-cran-lattice package 
from the Ubuntu universe is used here, but this is compiled for Ubuntu's 
version (based on 4.3.3).

There is an r-cran-lattice package for 20.04 and 22.04, and according to 
the instructions mentioned above, r-cran-lattice is one of the packages 
that should be offered via the CRAN repository.

Is it intentional that the lattice-package for noble is not offered via 
the CRAN repository?


Thanks!

Sven

On 1 December 2025 at 17:48, Sven Kielmann via R-SIG-Debian wrote:
| while installing R 4.5.2 according to the instructions at 
| https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/fullREADME.html on a machine 
| running 24.04 LTS (noble), I noticed that there is no package available 
| for r-cran-lattice in the noble-cran40. So, the r-cran-lattice package 
| from the Ubuntu universe is used here, but this is compiled for Ubuntu's 
| version (based on 4.3.3).
| 
| There is an r-cran-lattice package for 20.04 and 22.04, and according to 
| the instructions mentioned above, r-cran-lattice is one of the packages 
| that should be offered via the CRAN repository.
| 
| Is it intentional that the lattice-package for noble is not offered via 
| the CRAN repository?

It looks like an oversight (see below), and I am sure Michael will look into
this when he has a moment.

But the next paragraph: you can get lattice, along with 23k other CRAN
packages, from r2u in pretty much the same way -- along with all of CRAN.


 edd at paul:~$ docker run --rm -ti rocker/r2u:24.04
root at ebb827661b0f:/# apt update -qqq
root at ebb827661b0f:/# apt-cache policy r-cran-lattice  
r-cran-lattice:
  Installed: 0.22-7-1.ca2404.1
  Candidate: 0.22-7-1.ca2404.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.22-7-1.ca2404.1 700
        700 https://r2u.stat.illinois.edu/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.22-5-1build1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
root at ebb827661b0f:/# apt-cache policy r-cran-mass     
r-cran-mass:
  Installed: 7.3-65-1.ca2404.1
  Candidate: 7.3-65-1.ca2404.1
  Version table:
 *** 7.3-65-1.ca2404.1 700
        700 https://r2u.stat.illinois.edu/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     7.3-65-1.2404.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ Packages
     7.3-64-1.2404.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ Packages
     7.3-61-1.2404.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ Packages
     7.3-60.0.1-1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages
root at ebb827661b0f:/# 


This shows lattice is not at CRAN as a binary, but MASS is. Both are of
course also in their current version at r2u.

Hope this helps, Dirk

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