G'day Bogdan, On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:28:59 -0700 Bogdan Tanasa <tan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to install R 3.5.1 on my Ubuntu 14.04 system; however, I > am getting the following message : > > sudo apt-get install r-base > [...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > r-base : Depends: r-recommended (= 3.5.1-1trusty) but it is not > going to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. For me such problems are usually fixed by specifying the package that "is not going to be installed" but on which the package I want to install depends also to apt-get install. What does sudo apt-get install r-base r-recommended do on your system? Cheers, Berwin ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.