On 21 March 2016 at 16:37, Matthew Simpson wrote: | On Ubuntu 14.04 the following commands worked to install R 3.0.2 (after adding | Rutter's PPA): | | sudo apt-get install r-base-core | sudo apt-get install r-recommended=3.0.2-1ubuntu1 | sudo apt-get install r-base=3.0.2-1ubuntu1 | | For anyone else trying to run R on a linux distro through Crouton on a | Chromebook: there is a catch for ubuntu - when installing packages in R, the | usual window that pops up asking which R mirror you want doesn't work. Instead, | it throws an error - probably related to whatever Crouton is doing under the | hood. You can manually specify the mirror with install.packages(pkgname, repos | = 'cran mirror') of course, but that's annoying and there is no such problem | with Debian, so Debian > Ubuntu in this case.
You can set this in ~/.Rprofile or /etc/R/Rprofile.site: local({ r <- getOption("repos") r["CRAN"] <- "https://cran.rstudio.com" options(repos = r) }) ( I tend to also set additional drat repositories so I also have r["eddelbuettel"] <- "https://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat" r["ghrr"] <- "https://ghrr.github.io/drat" in there but that is options. ) But having CRAN preset makes the question go away. Dirk | | Matt | | On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Matthew Simpson <themattsimp...@gmail.com> | wrote: | | Ok, first I poked around the ubuntu tablet and related PPAs to see if I | could find one with an ARM port of R, but no luck. Next I tried a debian | install - jessie is supported on Crouton and it installs and runs basically | without a hitch. But I run into the same problem installing R - using only | a cran debian source and none of Rutter's PPAs. Now r-base-core is only | available up to 3.1.1-1. Attempting sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.1-1 | yields a complaint from apt that r-recommended 3.1.1-1 is needed but won't | be installed, though sudo apt-cache showpdg r-recommended shows 3.1.1-1 as | available. | | This left me basically where I was with ubuntu, but I tried something here | that I didn't try there - I manually tried to install r-recommended | 3.1.1-1. It complained about a dependency, so I manually tried installing | the right version of the dependency, which complained about a dependency, | etc, until I got something to install. Through this process here are the | things I installed, I believe in this order: | | sudo apt-get install r-base-core=3.1.1-1 | sudo apt-get install r-cran-boot=1.3-13-1 | sudo apt-get install r-cran-codetools=0.2-9-1 | sudo apt-get install r-recommended=3.1.1-1 | sudo apt-get install r-base=3.1.1-1 | | This got R installed correctly. While it's still not the most updated | version, it's a version I can probably live with considering this isn't my | main machine. | | I'm going to try the same thing on the ubuntu install to see if I can get R | 3.0.2 installed there - r-recommended 3.0.2 was available, so perhaps | manually installing the correct dependencies in order will get the job | done. I'll report back to say whether this worked either way. | | Thanks for the help, | Matt | | On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Johannes Ranke <jra...@uni-bremen.de> | wrote: | | | Am Montag, 21. März 2016, 13:31:44 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > On 21 March 2016 at 13:18, Matthew Simpson wrote: | > | It may be significant that my chromebook has an ARM processor. I | don't | > | know | > | about the details of how this works, but perhaps some pieces of the | R | > | install haven't been ported to the appropriate architecture? | > | > Bahh. I am clearly not awake. Should have realized that. | | Neither was I. | | > | > That is why you had r-doc-html, r-recommended, ... etc which are | binary=all. | > On CRAN you will /only/ find i386 and amd64. On the Ubuntu PPAs you | /may/ | > find arm builds as Ubuntu supports them for their tablet plans etc | pp. | | I am providing arm binaries for Debian wheezy and Debian jessie on | CRAN, maybe | this would be an option? | | Cheers, Johannes | | > | > As such, the Dockerfile I sent you is more relevant than the CRAN | README. | > | > Good luck, Dirk | | | | | -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian