also, it does not help to remove and re-install r-base. as far as apt-get is concerned, version 2.13.1 is the latest.
# apt-get --purge remove r-base-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: r-base-dev* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. After this operation, 36.9 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 47129 files and directories currently installed.) Removing r-base-dev ... # apt-get --purge remove r-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gfortran-4.6 libblas-dev libxml-parser-perl patchutils libncurses5-dev cdbs libreadline6-dev libpcrecpp0 intltool liblapack-dev libtinfo-dev python-scour gfortran libpcre3-dev dh-translations libjpeg62-dev dpatch libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libpng12-dev Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: r-base* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. After this operation, 77.8 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y (Reading database ... 47126 files and directories currently installed.) Removing r-base ... # apt-get install r-base Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: gfortran-4.6 libblas-dev libxml-parser-perl patchutils libncurses5-dev cdbs libreadline6-dev libpcrecpp0 intltool liblapack-dev libtinfo-dev python-scour gfortran libpcre3-dev dh-translations libjpeg62-dev dpatch libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libpng12-dev Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. Suggested packages: ess r-doc-info r-doc-pdf The following NEW packages will be installed: r-base 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/9,560 B of archives. After this operation, 77.8 kB of additional disk space will be used. debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Selecting previously deselected package r-base. (Reading database ... 47122 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking r-base (from .../r-base_2.13.1-1_all.deb) ... Setting up r-base (2.13.1-1) ... # apt-get install r-base-dev Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: r-base-dev 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/3,546 B of archives. After this operation, 36.9 kB of additional disk space will be used. debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline Selecting previously deselected package r-base-dev. (Reading database ... 47126 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking r-base-dev (from .../r-base-dev_2.13.1-1_all.deb) ... Setting up r-base-dev (2.13.1-1) ... # -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/installing-spam-package-is-failing-spam-0-29-1-tp4636628p4636920.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel