On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 10:55:01AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to install R for Ubuntu linux. Strangely, I got the > dependency error message below. > > 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-cran-cluster: Depends: r-base-core (>= 2.7.1~20080614) but > 2.7.0-1gutsy0 is to be installed > E: Broken packages
You are evidently mixing Debian and Ubuntu repositories. Uninstall r-cran-cluster which you must have gotten from Debian, and proceed, possibly with local help. Dirk > This is my first time I see dependency issues in installing R on Linux. > Does anyone help me to solve this? It seems version numbers do not > match (r-base 2.7.0 and r-base-core 2.7.1)...... > > I used 'sudo apt-get install r-base....' in a terminal and used > 'synaptic manager' as well. > > Thank you very much. > > Taka > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.