R help - Jul 2008 - How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

Hi,

I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran
archive about the related matter and could not find anything closer to this.

I want to upgrade my R version from 2.5.1. to 2.7.1. What is the best way to
load the latest one apart from installing the packages (tar.gz) from
http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/?


Please help.

Thanks..

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I checked from Ubuntu distro and the latest package only show 2.5.1. Anyone
has the similar problem too?

On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Jason Lee <huajie.lee@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran
> archive about the related matter and could not find anything closer to
this.
>
> I want to upgrade my R version from 2.5.1. to 2.7.1. What is the best way
> to load the latest one apart from installing the packages (tar.gz) from
> http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/?
>
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks..
>
>
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On 7 July 2008 at 12:07, Jason Lee wrote:
| I checked from Ubuntu distro and the latest package only show 2.5.1. Anyone
| has the similar problem too?

In a particular (and now outdated) release of Ubuntu, yes.

For all versions, see
    https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r-base

and for current R-on-current-Ubuntu see
    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu

This last point is in fact in the FAQ; the preceding point should be clear
from the Ubuntu docs.

Dirk

-- 
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.

Hi Jason,

 From your last e-mail I understood that you use Ubuntu, but it would 
help if you mentioned that. But enough comments from me, to a 
constructive answer :).

To get access to the most recent versions of R and a selection of the 
packages you can add CRAN as a debian repository. 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ gives instructions on how to 
do this. I often use the austrian CRAN mirror. Please do not forget to 
add the security key using apt-key or else the repository will not work.

cheers and hth,

Paul

Jason Lee schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran
> archive about the related matter and could not find anything closer to
this.
>
> I want to upgrade my R version from 2.5.1. to 2.7.1. What is the best way
to
> load the latest one apart from installing the packages (tar.gz) from
> http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/?
>
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks..
>
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>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org 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.
>

...in addition. These are the lines in my sources.list for CRAN:

deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch-cran/
deb-src http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch-cran/

This repository holds R 2.7.1.

cheers,
Paul
Jason Lee schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran
> archive about the related matter and could not find anything closer to
this.
>
> I want to upgrade my R version from 2.5.1. to 2.7.1. What is the best way
to
> load the latest one apart from installing the packages (tar.gz) from
> http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/?
>
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks..
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org 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.
>

and ofcourse (if using ubuntu) you need the ubuntu CRAN repository as 
Dirk Eddelbuettel suggested and not the debian as I suggested. sorry.

Paul

Jason Lee schreef:
> Hi,
>
> I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran
> archive about the related matter and could not find anything closer to
this.
>
> I want to upgrade my R version from 2.5.1. to 2.7.1. What is the best way
to
> load the latest one apart from installing the packages (tar.gz) from
> http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/?
>
>
> Please help.
>
> Thanks..
>
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help at r-project.org 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.
>