Issues in installing r-base-dev

Question

I am currently using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit .I was trying to install R as specified on this link . I am successfully able to install r-base but getting errors when trying to in

Answer 1

I made sure that the restricted and universe repositories are enabled (which was disabled in case of mine ). For doing this , Hit Alt + F2 type software-properties-gtk and hit Enter.

Under Ubuntu Software tab enable all the repositories. After which run

sudo apt-get update

Again run

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

And done successfully.

I got the above solution from this link