Thank you in advance for reading this help request. I am pretty new to R. I am experiencing some issues getting 2.5 installed on my Ubuntu Fiesty system and seek your advice. To the best of my ability I followed the instructions here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README Setting this as the last line in my sources.list: deb http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/ When I typed in: mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$ sudo apt-get install r-base 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. mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$ But when I go to R and check my version:> version_ platform i486-pc-linux-gnu arch i486 os linux-gnu system i486, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 4.1 year 2006 month 12 day 18 svn rev 40228 language R version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)>My version is still 2.4.1. I must be missing something. What do I need to do to get R version 2.5 installed on my ubuntu feisty (7.04) system? Let me know if there is any additional information I need to give to be helped out with this. Thank you for taking a look at this, Sincerely, Matt
Dear Matt, Did you issue: $ sudo apt-get update before running: $ sudo apt-get install r-base Now, let me tell you one thing about Linux and particularly Debian/Ubuntu. We are spoiled to the point that we love the official repositories. Because the official packages go through some testing, we tend to sacrifice a little bit of cutting edge for stability/reliability. If you don't think you need anything specific from version 2.5.0, I would recommend you to stick with the current version, 2.4.1. You'll also have several packages already compiled for you if you do that. I hope it helps. Paulo On 6/18/07, M. Jankowski <mjankowski at gmail.com> wrote:> Thank you in advance for reading this help request. I am pretty new to > R. I am experiencing some issues getting 2.5 installed on my Ubuntu > Fiesty system and > seek your advice. > > To the best of my ability I followed the instructions here: > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README > > Setting this as the last line in my sources.list: > deb http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/ > > When I typed in: > > mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$ sudo apt-get install r-base > 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. > mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$ > > But when I go to R and check my version: > > > version > _ > platform i486-pc-linux-gnu > arch i486 > os linux-gnu > system i486, linux-gnu > status > major 2 > minor 4.1 > year 2006 > month 12 > day 18 > svn rev 40228 > language R > version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18) > > > > My version is still 2.4.1. I must be missing something. What do I need > to do to get R version 2.5 installed on my ubuntu feisty (7.04) > system? Let me know if there is any additional information I need to > give to be helped out with this. > > Thank you for taking a look at this, > Sincerely, > Matt > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
This fixed my problem: Thanks! Did you run 'sudo apt-get update' as well so that it actually reads the listing at CRAN / FHCRC ? What does 'apt-cache policy r-base' show? [ It should display the different vertsions it knows about; if you only see 2.4.1 then you have a problem which may just be the missing 'apt-get update' ] Hth, Dirk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: M. Jankowski Date: Jun 18, 2007 3:34 PM Subject: Help: Upgrading to R2.5 on Ubuntu (Feisty) To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch Thank you in advance for reading this help request. I am pretty new to R. I am experiencing some issues getting 2.5 installed on my Ubuntu Fiesty system and seek your advice. To the best of my ability I followed the instructions here: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README Setting this as the last line in my sources.list: deb http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/ When I typed in: mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$ sudo apt-get install r-base 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. mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$ But when I go to R and check my version:> version_ platform i486-pc-linux-gnu arch i486 os linux-gnu system i486, linux-gnu status major 2 minor 4.1 year 2006 month 12 day 18 svn rev 40228 language R version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)>My version is still 2.4.1. I must be missing something. What do I need to do to get R version 2.5 installed on my ubuntu feisty (7.04) system? Let me know if there is any additional information I need to give to be helped out with this. Thank you for taking a look at this, Sincerely, Matt