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I spent my whole day trying to install R and RStudio on Ubuntu 17.10. I tried every solution on this stackexchange but any of those worked. I tried to update the source.list from apt-get, create keys using gpg, but every time I try to run sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-core the terminal says:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 r-base-core : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27) but 2.26-0ubuntu2.1 is to be installed
               Depends: libcurl4 (>= 7.28.0) but it is not installable
               Depends: libicu60 (>= 60.1-1~) but it is not installable
               Recommends: r-recommended but it is not going to be installed
               Recommends: r-base-dev 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.

Also, when I tried to use the gpg solution it always show the message:

gpg: key 51716619E084DAB9: "Michael Rutter <marutter@gmail.com>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
olegario
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I installed R and RStudio a couple of days ago on Ubuntu 18.04

The required steps for me with an otherwise fresh desktop install of Ubuntu 18.04 were:

wget https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-xenial-1.1.453-amd64.deb sudo apt install r-base r-base-dev libjpeg62 sudo dpkg -i rstudio-xenial-1.1.453-amd64.deb

Chris Burgess
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