Hi Dirk, Thanks for the suggested workarounds. This was just a VM I had spun up so I could test R4.0.0. I'm happy to wait for Michael to fix it when he has time.
Greg On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 13:10, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > On 28 April 2020 at 12:05, Greg Siemon wrote: > | I noticed that R 4.0.0 is now available for ubuntu on CRAN. I attempted > to > | do a clean install on 18.04 using: > | > | sudo apt install r-base > | > | after adding > | > | deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ > | > | to /etc/apt/sources.list. > | > | Unfortunately, apt reports that r-recommend is a dependency and it won't > be > | installed. Upon inspecting the R4.0 repos r-recommend is missing not only > | for bionic but also for xenial and focal. It is exists for the 3.5 Repos > | and seems to exist in the Debian R4.0 variants. Perhaps it was missed or > is > | it still syncing across? > > Thanks for catching that. It is likely a simple oversight which Michael > will > fix shortly as the package does get created. > > In the meantime you can try to not install 'r-base' but just 'r-base-core' > in > order avoid r-recommended. Or you could try to manually inject it from my > ppa. > or even add that PPA for a day or two: > > https://launchpad.net/~edd/+archive/ubuntu/r-4.0 > > This PPA should probably not be used instead of the CRAN mirrored one run > by > Michael but may help you in this current situation. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian