Dear Dirk (other users and Dave) PART 1 I finally was able to install R.3.5.1, however, I had to invoke the following
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9 As this skin of Ubuntu 18.04 (Peppermint) does not seem to allow access to the bionic-cran35 repository unless this key is set and added to the system. This is odd - well for me anyway, as for other skins of Ubunto say 16.04 (Peppermint) I do not have to do this, though when I do sudo apt-get update it does complain bitterly about the key not being validated but continues? Perhaps this would be a useful addition to the install notes on the R webpage. Just a thought - unless I have done something really silly. PART 2 On another related matter. (If I may beg for assistance) I am a co-developer of an R package which is alas not open source - even I require a license key. There is some setting which is stopping the Peppermint browser from allowing the RLM to access the session in R See screenshot and also the page below for the way to install https://www.vsni.co.uk/resources/vsni-new-licensing If this is too much to ask for any ideas to work around then please ignore thanks again Brian (not Alison Smith- I am married to Alison and assisting with her IT matters) Regards Alison Alison Smith Principal Research Fellow National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) School of Mathematics & Applied Statistics Faculty of Engineering & Information Sciences Building 39C Room 261 University of Wollongong NSW 2522 M: 0417 947 115 E: alism...@uow.edu.au W: http://niasra.uow.edu.au/index.html ________________________________________ From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <dirk.eddelbuet...@gmail.com> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> Sent: Tuesday, 24 July 2018 2:59 AM To: Alison Smith Cc: Dirk Eddelbuettel Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu issue with 18.04 Bionic Beaver Alison, It would be preferable to have follow-up emails on-list as welll... On 23 July 2018 at 07:09, Alison Smith wrote: | Hi Dirk | thanks for looking at this problem for me | I ran the commands you ran and here are the results. | I am at a loss to know where this distro is finding 3.4.4???? I cannot tell from here either. You did run 'sudo apt-get updare', right? Dirk | cheers | | | | alison@alison-GWT ~ $ ag cran /etc/apt/ | /etc/apt/sources.list | 52:deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ | | alison@alison-GWT ~ $ cd /etc/apt | alison@alison-GWT /etc/apt $ ls | apt.conf.d preferences.d sources.list.d trusted.gpg.d | preferences sources.list sources.list.save | | alison@alison-GWT /etc/apt $ cd sources.list.d/ | alison@alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ ls | mendeleydesktop.list peppermint.list | mendeleydesktop.list.save peppermint.list.save | | alison@alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ lsb_release -a | No LSB modules are available. | Distributor ID: Peppermint | Description: Peppermint 9 Nine | Release: 9 | Codename: bionic | | alison@alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ apt-cache policy r-base-core | r-base-core: | Installed: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 | Candidate: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 | Version table: | *** 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500 | 500 http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages | 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status | alison@alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ | | | Regards | Alison | | | | Alison Smith | Principal Research Fellow | National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) | School of Mathematics & Applied Statistics | Faculty of Engineering & Information Sciences | Building 39C Room 261 | University of Wollongong NSW 2522 | M: 0417 947 115 | E: alism...@uow.edu.au | W: http://niasra.uow.edu.au/index.html | | | | ________________________________________ | From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <dirk.eddelbuet...@gmail.com> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> | Sent: Monday, 23 July 2018 12:43 PM | To: Alison Smith | Cc: r-sig-debian@r-project.org | Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu issue with 18.04 Bionic Beaver | | On 23 July 2018 at 02:08, Alison Smith wrote: | | Dear Debian persons | | | | I would like enquire about whether the repository | | | | deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ | | | | I tried to follow the instructions and I cannot get R3.5.1 - I get R3.4.4??? | | Works for me on multiple machines: | | edd@rob:~$ lsb_release -a | No LSB modules are available. | Distributor ID: Ubuntu | Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | Release: 18.04 | Codename: bionic | edd@rob:~$ apt-cache policy r-base-core | r-base-core: | Installed: 3.5.1-1bionic | Candidate: 3.5.1-1bionic | Version table: | *** 3.5.1-1bionic 500 | 500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages | 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status | 3.5.0-1bionic 500 | 500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ Packages | 3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500 | 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages | edd@rob:~$ | | Make sure you remove any old entries / competing entries in /etc/apt/source*: | | edd@rob:~$ ag cran /etc/apt/ | /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cran.list | 1:deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/ # disabled on upgrade to bionic | edd@rob:~$ | | Here the bionic-cran35 entry is the only CRAN entry I have. | | | I have been able to install R3.5.1 on Ubuntu 16.02 using the xenial-cran35/ repository & so not sure if the bionic link is up to date? | | Should be. You can also poke 'by hand' with a browser... | | Dirk | | -- | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | | | -- 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
