Installing R on N2

[aull77]

Has anyone been able to install any instance of R on 18.04LTS? R is described here https://cran.r-project.org/

Ideally I would like to install 4.0 but just getting the base has been challenging.

Followed the instructions here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/ ... untu-18-04

Tried installing 4.0 and when that failed (with a similar message) tried 3.6 but got this (similar) message:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.6.3-1bionic) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: r-recommended (= 3.6.3-1bionic) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: r-doc-html but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


Then tried repair/update but still no luck.

[odroid]

Does it support ARM aarch64?
I have no experience of R though.

[meveric]

If you followed the guide above you probably broke the support, as the repos in the cran.r-project page only support amd64 and i386.
But R is part of your linux distro already without any alteration:

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root@odroid-buster64:~# apt-cache policy r-base
r-base:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.5.2-1
  Version table:
     3.5.2-1 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster/main arm64 Packages
root@odroid-buster64:~# apt-cache policy r-base-core
r-base-core:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.5.2-1
  Version table:
     3.5.2-1 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster/main arm64 Packages

Same applies for Ubuntu 18.04:

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root@odroid-bionic64:/# apt-cache policy r-base
r-base:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic/universe arm64 Packages
root@odroid-bionic64:/# apt-cache policy r-base-core
r-base-core:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.4.4-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic/universe arm64 Packages

Please Note that in Ubuntu it's part of the "universe" repository not "main".

Also Ubuntu 18.04 only comes with R 3.4.4 and since the repo in your guide does not provide packages for ARM boards you can't install packages from their repository.

[aull77]

Thanks - made sense. 3.4.4 installed. Working on the Shiny server now.