I am a newbie when it comes to Ubuntu having "grown up" on Windows using R. I installed 12.04 on a laptop and it went fine. When I went out to CRAN and followed the directions (hopefully) to install R, seems to have gone fine, except that when I start R I get 2.14.1: jim at jim-winbook:~$ R R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22) Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing ISBN 3-900051-07-0 Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit) How do I get the latest version (2.15.1) installed on Ubuntu? -- Jim Holtman Data Munger Guru What is the problem that you are trying to solve? Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
Amazingly, RTFM. Linux typically uses "repositories" to download
software from. If you follow the instructions on CRAN specific to Ubuntu, you
can add a repository that has current versions of R. Admittedly, some of the
steps are non-obvious due to security concerns, but the instructions are pretty
good.
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jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am a newbie when it comes to Ubuntu having "grown up" on Windows
>using R. I installed 12.04 on a laptop and it went fine. When I went
>out to CRAN and followed the directions (hopefully) to install R,
>seems to have gone fine, except that when I start R I get 2.14.1:
>
>jim at jim-winbook:~$ R
>
>R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
>Copyright (C) 2011 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)
>
>
>How do I get the latest version (2.15.1) installed on Ubuntu?
>
>--
>Jim Holtman
>Data Munger Guru
>
>What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
>Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.
>
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On Jul 31, 2012, at 02:58 , Jeff Newmiller wrote:> Amazingly, RTFM.RTFWP, I think you mean. Sounds like you are referring to this one: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/> Linux typically uses "repositories" to download software from. If you follow the instructions on CRAN specific to Ubuntu, you can add a repository that has current versions of R. Admittedly, some of the steps are non-obvious due to security concerns, but the instructions are pretty good.-- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com