On 03/23/2016 10:53 AM, Barnet Wagman wrote: > > > On 03/23/2016 10:23 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >> On 23 March 2016 at 09:35, Barnet Wagman wrote: >> | I am unable to install R on an up to date (i.e. apt upgraded) Ubuntu >> | 14.04 system. According to >> | https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README (and many other >> sources), >> | R is available for this version of Ubuntu (which is a stable version). >> | >> | I currently have >> | >> | deb https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/ >> | >> | in sources.list. I've tried this with and without >> | >> | deb https:// mirrors.rit.edu/ubuntu trusty-backports main >> | restricted universe >> >> Is the space an error for the email, or do you really have it there? > Error in the email: sorry about that. > > I've never used docker and installing it appears to require changing > kernels which I'd rather not do. > > Is there any other way to get useful information? > FYI I've tried installing r-base-core and got the same errors listed in > my first email. > > thanks >
You can also use a full VM to test instead of docker. Vagrant would be the easiest way to go down that route. It's starting to sound like you've got some backports that are the issue. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
