Sven Kielmann
2025-Dec-01 16:48 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] 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
Dirk Eddelbuettel
2025-Dec-01 17:32 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] missing r-cran-lattice for noble-cran40
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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