Re: [R] problem installing R on ubuntu

2010-12-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Horace Tso wrote: > Barry, my reporting error, my ubuntu is 10.04, which is Hardy I believe. It > was a straight build from the source. No funny stuff done on it. My lsb_release says my 10.04 is Lucid. # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distribu

Re: [R] problem installing R on ubuntu

2010-12-23 Thread Horace Tso
, December 23, 2010 10:57 AM To: Horace Tso Cc: r-help Subject: Re: [R] problem installing R on ubuntu On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Horace Tso wrote: > Following the official instructions to install R on ubuntu 10.04, I issued > this command on the prompt, > > sudo apt-get install r

Re: [R] problem installing R on ubuntu

2010-12-23 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Horace Tso wrote: > Following the official instructions to install R on ubuntu 10.04, I issued > this command on the prompt, > > sudo apt-get install r-base > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >  r-base: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.12.1-1hardy0) but

[R] problem installing R on ubuntu

2010-12-23 Thread Horace Tso
Following the official instructions to install R on ubuntu 10.04, I issued this command on the prompt, sudo apt-get install r-base Here is the error msg, Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean