[R] Upgrading on Ubuntu from 2.11.1 to 2.15.1

[John Kane]

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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