[R] How to install R 4.0 on chromebook?

[Marc Schwartz]

Hi,

You appear to have installed Debian on a Chromebook, presumably to overcome the limitations otherwise present in Chrome OS.

Since the questions you pose are specific to Debian, there is an R e-mail list focused on the use of R on Debian based computers:

  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian

You should subscribe to that list and post your queries there to avail yourself of a focused audience, which may include folks that have installed a Debian based Linux distribution on a Chromebook.

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


> On May 22, 2020, at 9:49 AM, Luigi Marongiu <marongiu.luigi using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I have tried to upgrade R to 4.0. I have added `deb
> http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian buster-cran40/` to
> `/etc/apt/sources.list`
> (but I removed cran35). Btu when I run `apt-get update; apt-get install
> r-base r-base-dev` I get an error. I think it depends on r-base-core, since
> it depends on these obsolete libraries:
> ```
> $ sudo apt-get install r-base-core
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> 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-core : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.24-11+deb9u4 is to be
> installed
>               Depends: libcurl4 (>= 7.28.0) but it is not installable
>               Depends: libgfortran5 (>= 8) but it is not installable
>               Depends: libicu63 (>= 63.1-1~) but it is not installable
>               Depends: libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.32) but it is not going to be
> installed
>               Recommends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed
>               Recommends: r-base-dev 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.
> ```
> How can I upgrade these libraries on Chromebook?
> Thank you
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
> Luigi