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: ***@uow.edu.au
W: http://niasra.uow.edu.au/index.html
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From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <***@gmail.com> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <***@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
|
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|
| ***@alison-GWT ~ $ ag cran /etc/apt/
| /etc/apt/sources.list
| 52:deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/
|
| ***@alison-GWT ~ $ cd /etc/apt
| ***@alison-GWT /etc/apt $ ls
| apt.conf.d preferences.d sources.list.d trusted.gpg.d
| preferences sources.list sources.list.save
|
| ***@alison-GWT /etc/apt $ cd sources.list.d/
| ***@alison-GWT /etc/apt/sources.list.d $ ls
| mendeleydesktop.list peppermint.list
| mendeleydesktop.list.save peppermint.list.save
|
| ***@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-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-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: ***@uow.edu.au
| W: http://niasra.uow.edu.au/index.html
|
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| ________________________________________
| From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <***@gmail.com> on behalf of Dirk Eddelbuettel <***@debian.org>
| Sent: Monday, 23 July 2018 12:43 PM
| To: Alison Smith
| Cc: r-sig-***@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:
|
| ***@rob:~$ lsb_release -a
| No LSB modules are available.
| Distributor ID: Ubuntu
| Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
| Release: 18.04
| Codename: bionic
| ***@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
| ***@rob:~$
|
| Make sure you remove any old entries / competing entries in /etc/apt/source*:
|
| ***@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
| ***@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
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