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Trouble upgrading R on Debian 10 (buster) running on a Lenovo Chromebook

I have a new Lenovo Chromebook which comes with a Debian 10 (buster) app. It’s an app that runs linux in a terminal. I am trying to install the newest version of the statistical software R (4.0.3) but it keeps reverting to version 3.5.2. I get the following errors and no matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall r-base and r-base-core, it won’t let me install 4.X.X. I’ve tried this fix: https://www.charlesbordet.com/en/how…0-0-on-debian/ but I still get the errors below. Any advice would be most appreciated!

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.3-1~bustercran.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: r-recommended (= 4.0.3-1~bustercran.0) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: r-base-html but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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    I cannot answer for chromebooks, but if you are using regular Debian Stable (currently Buster, Debian 10), the currently used version of GNU R is 3.5. There are two main ways to solve this: either use backports or run a container with a newer version of GNU R, as e.g. shown in this video by Dirk Eddelbuettel.

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    You need to install r-base-core from buster-cran40 (r-base-html will be installed as dependency).

    make sure to have the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list :

    deb http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian buster-cran40/

    Then:

    sudo apt update
sudo apt install -t buster-cran40  r-base-core
sudo apt install -t buster-cran40  r-base
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