[R] Latest version of R on Ubuntu

peter dalgaard
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:17:19 -0000

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