R help - Jun 2007 - How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

Dear R-users,

I'm using Ubuntu dapper, which only have R of Version 2.2.1.

Would anybody tell me how to install the latest version of R with 

Synaptic in Ubuntu dapper system.

Thanks!

>I'm using Ubuntu dapper, which only have R of Version 2.2.1.
>Would anybody tell me how to install the latest version of R with 

from the CRAN Ubuntu readme- works for synaptic as well:

* UBUNTU

R packages for Ubuntu on i386 are available. The plans are to support at
least the latest Ubuntu release and the latest LTS release. Currently
(April 2007), these are Feisty Fawn (7.04) and Dapper Drake (6.06),
respectively. Since Feisty was released very shortly before R 2.5.0,
binary packages *for this release of R* are also available for Edgy
Eft (6.10).

To obtain the latest R packages, add an entry like

  deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/

or

  deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu edgy/

or

  deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/

in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. See 
http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
for the list of CRAN mirrors. To install the complete R system, use

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install r-base

Users who need to compile packages should also install the r-base-dev
package:

  sudo apt-get install r-base-dev

The R packages for Ubuntu should otherwise behave like the Debian ones. For
more information, see the README file in

  http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian/

* SECURE APT

The Ubuntu archives on CRAN are signed with the key of "Vincent Goulet
<vincent.goulet@act.ulaval.ca>" with key ID E2A11821. You can fetch
this with

  gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821

and then you feed the key to apt-key with

  gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -

Some people have reported difficulties using this approach. The issue
was usually related to a firewall blocking port 11371. An alternative
approach is to search for the key at http://keyserver.noreply.org/ and
copy the key to a plain text file, say key.txt. Then, feed the key to
apt-key with

  sudo apt-key add key.txt


* ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Debian R packages are maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Doug Bates.
The Ubuntu packages are compiled for i386 by Vincent Goulet.


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mike,

try installing directly using apt-get instead of Synaptic. 

in my /etc/apt/sources.list i added the line:

	deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ dapper/ 

and then i did:

	bash$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-doc-html r-mathlib 
r-base-html
r-base-latex r-base-dev r-gnome

recently to update to R 2.5.1 on my version of Ubuntu (6.06).

cheers,

thomas.

> Message: 98
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:34:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: msmith <msmith at ebi.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion and I wish the solution was that obvious, but I
> have changed it to really point at my favourite mirror.
> 
> Using your example Synaptic reports the following error when I try to
update
> the repositories:
> 
>
http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:
> 404 Not Found
> 
> This is understandable since that location doesn't exist, but it makes
me
> think that the directory structure of the R mirrors is not compatible with
> Ubuntu and Synaptic, since it automatically seeks /dists/feisty/ rather
than
> just /feisty/ as it is on the CRAN mirrors.
> 
> Thanks again
> Mike Smith
> 
> 
> Stefan Grosse-2 wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>  to end of the entry making it:
> >>
> >>  deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main
> >>
> >> However after this it still complains that it can't find
"packages.gz"
> >>
> >>   
> > 
> > Just a guess: have you replaced the my.favorite.cran.mirror by a
mirror
> > which is close to you? If you're in UK it would be for example
> > 
> > deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main
> > 
> > ;o)
> > Stefan
> > 
> >> It appears to be looking in 
> >> http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu/distsfeisty
> >> which isn't the directory structure of the cran repository,
but
> >> I can see anyway to modify this behaviour.  Every other Ubuntu
repositoy
> >> I have looked at contains the dists directory.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions for modifying this behaviour are gratefully
recieved.
> >> Many thanks
> >>
> >> Mike Smith
> >>
> >>
> >>   
> > 
> > 
> > 
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