On 31 August 2011 at 00:05, kirti rajagopalan wrote: | I am trying to install R version 2.13.1 on Ubuntu. I get the following error | when I type the command sudo apt-get install r-base | | I have modified /etc/apt/sources.list as well as run the command "sudo | apt-get update" prior to running this. | | Please help! | | | 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. | | Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that | the package is simply not installable and a bug report against | that package should be filed. | The following information may help resolve the situation: | | The following packages have unmet dependencies: | r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.13.1-1maverick2) but 2.6.2-2 is to be | installed | Depends: r-recommended (= 2.13.1-1maverick2) but it is not going | to be installed | E: Broken packages
R 2.6.2 is suspicious. Are you running a __very__ old version of Ubuntu? Only the last few releases are supported, in other words the repository assumes that you are at least somewhat current. Dirk -- Two new Rcpp master classes for R and C++ integration scheduled for New York (Sep 24) and San Francisco (Oct 8), more details are at http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2011/08/04#rcpp_classes_2011-09_and_2011-10 http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/products/training/public/rcpp-master-class.php _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
