Dear Krzysztof, I would suggest to have a look at Docker images. https://hub.docker.com/r/rocker/r-ver/ provides images for different versions of R. You could even create your own image with all the packages and other dependencies that you need. See e.g. our image at https://hub.docker.com/r/inbobmk/rstable/
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Statisticus / Statistician Vlaamse Overheid / Government of Flanders INSTITUUT VOOR NATUUR- EN BOSONDERZOEK / RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST Team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / Team Biometrics & Quality Assurance thierry.onkel...@inbo.be Havenlaan 88 bus 73, 1000 Brussel www.inbo.be /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2018-01-16 19:32 GMT+01:00 Krzysztof Polanski <k...@sanger.ac.uk>: > Hello, > > I need a specific version of R installed for consistency reasons. I do the > standard setup steps: > > echo "deb https://cran.ma.imperial.ac.uk/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/" | sudo tee > -a /etc/apt/sources.list > sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9 > sudo apt-get update > > And then a simple install call, which used to work just fine some time ago, > tosses an error: > > ubuntu@test:~$ sudo apt-get -y install r-base=3.4.2-1trusty1 > 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-recommended (= 3.4.2-1trusty1) but 3.4.3-1trusty0 is to > be installed > Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed > Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > The problem is highlighted in this error - r-recommended seems to > auto-default to 3.4.3. When installing r-base-core=3.4.2-1trusty1 by itself, > it installs fine. When installing r-recommended=3.4.2-1trusty1 by itself, it > sneakily installs 3.4.3 without saying anything. When trying to install > r-base=3.4.2-1trusty1, it catches this cognitive dissonance and falls on its > face. Some help please? > > Sincerely, > Krzysztof > > > > -- > The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research > Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a > company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered > office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian