[R] Problem installing R 4.2 on Ubuntu 20-04

[Bert Gunter]

Better posted on R-sig-debian, I think.

Cheers,
Bert

On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 7:44 AM Witold E Wolski <wewolski using gmail.com> wrote:

> I am failing to get R 4 installed on Ubuntu. I am following the
> instructions given here:
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
>
> These are the errors I am getting:
> <start>
> parallels using ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop:~/Downloads/fragpipe/bin$ sudo
> apt install --no-install-recommends r-base
> [sudo] password for parallels:
> 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 : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.2.1-1.2004.0) but it is not going
> to be installed
>           Depends: r-recommended (= 4.2.1-1.2004.0) but it is not
> going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> <end>
>
>
> This is the tail of the source.lists file:
>
> <start>
> deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/
> # deb-src https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/
> <end>
>
> This is the head of executing: apt-cache policy r-base
> <start>
> arallels using ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop:~/Downloads/fragpipe/bin$
> apt-cache policy r-base
> r-base:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 4.2.1-1.2004.0
>   Version table:
>      4.2.1-1.2004.0 500
>         500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/
> Packages
>      4.2.0-1.2004.0 500
>         500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/
> Packages
>      4.1.3-1.2004.0 500
>         500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/
> Packages
>      4.1.2-1.2004.0 500
>
> <end>
>
> End this is for executing apt-cache policy r-base-core
>
> <start>
> parallels using ubuntu-linux-20-04-desktop:~/Downloads/fragpipe/bin$
> apt-cache policy r-base-core
> r-base-core:
>   Installed: (none)
>   Candidate: 3.6.3-2
>   Version table:
>      3.6.3-2 500
>         500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal/universe arm64
> Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> <end>
>
> Someone else described the same/similar problem here:
>
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1373827/problems-installing-latest-version-of-r-in-ubuntu-20-04-lts
>
> What step did I miss executing?
>
> Best regards
> Witek
>
>
> --
> Witold Eryk Wolski
>
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