"Apparently"? How is this apparent? I don't see this mentioned at
CRAN [1]. Why would you reference some perhaps well-intentioned but possibly
untrustworthy person's website when you could be downloading from a vetted
distribution source?
[1] http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
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Andrew Crane-Droesch <andrewcd at gmail.com>
wrote:>I am trying to upgrade to R 3.0.1, and I am working on ubuntu.
>Apparently, the new version is available in the following ppa:
>https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u. I have added this ppa
>to my software sources.
>
>I then run the typical sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get
>dist-upgrade,
>and R fails to upgrade from 2.15.2 to 3.0.1. I then manually try to
>sudo apt-get install r-base-dev, which does not recognize that a new
>version is available from the newly-installed ppa.
>
>I have tried using the GUI Software Center as well -- it lists R as
>installed, and makes no mention of the new version.
>
>Could someone be so kind as to post step-by-step instructions for
>actually installing R 3.0.1? Given issues with graphics in R2.15.2
>with
>Ubuntu 13.04, I am sure that this will be useful to people besides me.
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew
>
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