Installing R-base in Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon

I'm trying to install the package r-base using the Linux Mint community software view.

By clicking on the "install" button one asks me for the "install of additional software?". By clicking on "install" again, the following error message comes out:

Can not install 'r-base' (E:Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.) 

This is the output of apt-cache policy:

Package files:
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Pinned packages:

This is the output of apt-cache policy r-base:

r-base:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.1.3-1precise2
  Version table:
     3.1.3-1precise2 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.1.2-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.1.1-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.1.0-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.3.20140328-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.3-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.2-1ubuntu1 0
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and, finally, this is the output for the sudo apt-get install r-base code:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 3.1.3-1precise2) but it is not going to be installed
          Depends: r-recommended (= 3.1.3-1precise2) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The following one is the output of the sudo apt-cache policy r-base-core r-recommended:

r-base-core:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.1.3-1precise2
  Version table:
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     2.15.2-1precise0 0
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     2.15.1-1precise2 0
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     2.15.0-1precise0 0
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r-recommended:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.1.3-1precise2
  Version table:
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     3.1.2-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.1.1-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.1.0-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.3.20140328-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.3-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.2-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages
     3.0.2-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.1-6precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.1-5precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
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     3.0.1-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     3.0.0-2precise 0
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     2.15.2-1precise0 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     2.15.1-1precise2 0
        500 http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages
     2.15.0-1precise0 0
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while the following one is the output from the terminal of the command sudo apt-get install r.base-core:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 r-base-core : Depends: libtiff4 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

The output from the `sudo apt-cache policy libtiff4 is:

libtiff4:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:

and from `sudo apt-get install libtiff4 is:

`Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package libtiff4 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'libtiff4' has no installation candidate

I tried to install it by using the software manager too, but without success.

Browsing on the internet I found some code to install it by using Ubuntu 12.10+ through the terminal, but nothing adapt to Linux Mint (or, at least, I think it was not).

Does someone knows how to install the R software or suggest the correct procedure to do it, please?