[R] Upgrading on Ubuntu from 2.11.1 to 2.15.1
John Kane
jrkrideau at inbox.com
Thu Jul 19 15:40:38 CEST 2012
As far as I can see those instructions are not all that helpful.
The answer below, from R-sig-Debian worked very nicely for me a little over a month ago.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: marutter.psu at gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:56:16 -0400
> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Attempting to update from R 2.14 to 2.15 on
> Ubuntu
>
>
>
> On 06/12/2012 02:42 PM, John Kane wrote:
>> R-SIG-Debian
>>
>> I am very new to Linux so I probably am doing something stupid but I
>> cannot seem to update to R 2.15
>> Using Ubuntu 12.02 Precise Penguin
>
> John,
>
> If you are using Ubuntu, don't mix the Debian repositories with Ubuntu
> ones, it has the chance to create issues.
>
> The simplest thing to do is to remove the line from sources.list that
> you added with that ends with squeeze-cran.
>
> Then run the following command, which will add my R PPA from launchpad:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter
>
> This is the PPA that feeds the CRAN mirrors. Then run
>
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> And the latest versions of R should be installed.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Michael
>
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chet.seligman at gmail.com
> Sent: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:27:49 -0700
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] Upgrading on Ubuntu from 2.11.1 to 2.15.1
>
> This doesn't work, what should I do?
>
> sudo apt-get install r-base
> [sudo] password for cseligman:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> r-base is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
>
> Also:
>> .libPaths()
> [1] "/export/home/cseligman/local/library/R"
> [2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
> [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library"
> [4] "/usr/lib/R/library"
> [5] "/usr/lib64/R/library"
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chet
>
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