Request for a more recent version of R (r-base-core)

[Stevo]

Did you manage to install and get any use from 4.3.2 yet, and does it resolve those issues in your first post?

Thanks in advance...

[radissthor]

I'm having some trouble updating. I tried via the MX Package installed and I was able to install r-base-core 4.3.2, but not r-base. Although I clicked on 'install dependencies', it kept giving me errors that the package could not be installed because other packages depended on it.

I then tried synaptic, but if I enable the test repos I cannot reload. I have some custom repos (Zotero and Skype) that are giving me errors and preventing the packages from reloading.

Is there anything I'm doing wrong here?

EDIT: Something else I also noticed is that after selecting r-recommended from the MX package installed (in the repos tab) it says that 0 bytes of archives will be downloaded and 167 MB will be released. That doesn't seem right, right?

[Stevo]

Can you get it to work if those two third-party repos are disabled temporarily?

FWIW, I just installed r-base, r-base-core, and the recommends with MXPI without a hitch.

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2024-01-09  05:45:51  install  r-recommended                                                all    <none>                                4.3.2-1~mx23+1
2024-01-09  05:45:51  install  r-base-html                                                  all    <none>                                4.3.2-1~mx23+1
2024-01-09  05:45:51  install  r-base                                                       all    <none>                                4.3.2-1~mx23+1
2024-01-09  05:45:50  install  r-cran-survival                                              amd64  <none>                                3.5-3-1
2024-01-09  05:45:50  install  r-cran-spatial                                               amd64  <none>                                7.3-16-1
2024-01-09  05:45:50  install  r-cran-rpart                                                 amd64  <none>                                4.1.19-1
2024-01-09  05:45:50  install  r-cran-nnet                                                  amd64  <none>                                7.3-18-1
2024-01-09  05:45:50  install  r-cran-nlme                                                  amd64  <none>                                3.1.162-1
2024-01-09  05:45:50  install  r-cran-mgcv                                                  amd64  <none>                                1.8-41-1
2024-01-09  05:45:49  install  r-cran-matrix                                                amd64  <none>                                1.5-3-1
2024-01-09  05:45:49  install  r-cran-lattice                                               amd64  <none>                                0.20-45-3
2024-01-09  05:45:49  install  r-cran-kernsmooth                                            amd64  <none>                                2.23-20-1
2024-01-09  05:45:49  install  r-cran-foreign                                               amd64  <none>                                0.8.84-1
2024-01-09  05:45:49  install  r-cran-codetools                                             all    <none>                                0.2-19-1
2024-01-09  05:45:49  install  r-cran-cluster                                               amd64  <none>                                2.1.4-1
2024-01-09  05:45:48  install  r-cran-mass                                                  amd64  <none>                                7.3-58.2-1
2024-01-09  05:45:48  install  r-cran-class                                                 amd64  <none>                                7.3-21-1
2024-01-09  05:45:48  install  r-cran-boot                                                  all    <none>                                1.3-28.1-1
2024-01-09  05:45:47  install  r-base-core                                                  amd64  <none>                                4.3.2-1~mx23+1

[radissthor]

I disabled the zotero repo and was able to reload the packages in synaptic successfully.

However, trying to install r-base and r-recommended via MXPI didn't work:

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Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster InRelease
Get:3 http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster InRelease [6,806 B]
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Get:6 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable InRelease [5,931 B]
Hit:7 https://desktop-download.mendeley.com/download/apt stable InRelease
Get:8 http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/testrepo buster/test amd64 Packages [1,239 kB]
Ign:9 http://linux.dropbox.com/debian buster InRelease
Hit:10 http://linux.dropbox.com/debian buster Release
Fetched 1,252 kB in 1s (926 kB/s)
Reading package lists...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
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-recommended : Depends: r-cran-boot (>= 1.2.19) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-class but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-cluster (>= 1.9.6-2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-codetools but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-foreign (>= 0.7-2) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-kernsmooth (>= 2.2.14) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-lattice (>= 0.10.11) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-mass but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-matrix but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-mgcv (>= 1.1.5) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-nlme (>= 3.1.52) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-nnet but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-rpart (>= 3.1.20) but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-spatial but it is not going to be installed
                 Depends: r-cran-survival (>= 2.13.2-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Hit:1 http://nl.mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster InRelease
Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Get:5 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable InRelease [5,931 B]
Hit:6 https://desktop-download.mendeley.com/download/apt stable InRelease
Ign:7 http://linux.dropbox.com/debian buster InRelease
Hit:8 http://linux.dropbox.com/debian buster Release
Fetched 5,931 B in 1s (5,920 B/s)

Reading package lists...

[radissthor]

I just tried, after enabling the test repositories via synaptic and successfully reloading packages, to install r-base, but after reloading the packages, I still see version 3.5.2-1 and not the latest version.

And if I only try to install r-base via MXPI I do see the latest version, but installation fails because it tell me it depends in r-recommended

[Stevo]

Your QSI in the first few posts says MX 21.3, but the above show MX 19 (buster) repos.

[radissthor]

Oh xxxxxxx, yes. Sorry. I am constantly switching between computers and I since I use R in both of them I completely forgot that the original post was about my 21.3 computer. I seemed to remember you mentioned in one post that it could also work for 19, so I guess I considered the changes to apply to both. Sorry about that!

Yes: In MX 21.3 the installation went smoothly. Thanks!

[Stevo]

OK, so just the MX 19 version needs to lose the dependency on r-recommended, though I hope that doesn't make it almost useless.

[radissthor]

though I hope that doesn't make it almost useless.

I am afraid that would be the case. The packages in r-recommended are... strongly recommended. They are pretty much essential to work with R.

Still, I am able to use r in my MX 19 computer right now, so there's no rush to get the latest version working on the MX19 repos.

Many thanks for all the work!