Downgrading R to an older version

Chong Kim San Allen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,
My server is running Debian and the most stable version of R for Debian is 2.1.5. I decided to use "apititude install r-base=3.1.0" to install a backport version of R but that command just upgraded it to R 3.1.1. I don't know why it installed 3.1.1 instead of 3.1.0?

I have 2 software that I would like to run on my server: ChAMP and MeDIPS. It seems that ChAMP will not run on R 2.1.5 but is fine with R 3.1.1. The reverse is true for MeDIPS. I was told by someone that a compromise is to install R 3.1.0. 

I have tried to force Synaptic Package Manager to install R 3.1.0 by following the instructions on this webpage:

askubuntu.com/questions/292314/how-to-downgrade-packages-on-ubuntu

but no matter which mirror I use, I am told by Synaptic Package Manager that it cannot install R3.1.0 because of broken packages.  I have tried to use Synaptic Package Manager to fix the packages but it doesn't work. 

So my question is:

1) Can anyone suggest a way to downgrade to a working R 3.1.0? Maybe through a command line instruction
or
2) Is there a way to get MeDIPS to work with R3.1.1

Thanks in advance for any help.

Allen
_______________________________________________
Bioconductor mailing list
[email protected]
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor
Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.