[R] Ubuntu installation

Gene Leynes
Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:09:02 -0000

I got R to update to the latest version

The problem was the sources.list file.  I had not fixed the sources.list
file correctly, which was apparent when I opened the file using
sudo nano sources.list
Opening the file from the command line turns on syntax highlighting (as
opposed to opening a file from within nano using ctrl-r... who thinks of
these shortcuts?  Ctrl-o means "save"?)

anyway... it's very important to have a space and a trailing slash... as
shown below:
deb http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/

When I edited that line, the update worked.

Hope this helps someone.


Thank you,
   Gene Leynes
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Gene Leynes <gleynes@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just followed the instructions on
CRAN<http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README> to install
> R on an Ubuntu instance.
> sudo apt-get install r-base
>
> Why does it install an old version of R?  Can I install version 15.1?
>
> I changed my sources.list to be a current cran mirror.  I believe that I
> have entered the URL correctly because at first I had it wrong (there was a
> trailing "/"), and I fixed that error.   when I run
> sudo apt-get install r-base
> it says that I'm at the most current version, but I can see 15.1 in the
> repository.
>
>
>   > sessionInfo()R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
> locale:
>  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=C
LC_COLLATE=C
>  [5] LC_MONETARY=C        LC_MESSAGES=C        LC_PAPER=C
LC_NAME=C
>  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C         LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=C
LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.1
>
>  >
>
>
> Thank you,
>    Gene Leynes
> _____________________________________________
> *Data Scientist*
> *http://www.linkedin.com/in/geneleynes
> *
> <http://goog_598053156>*http://geneorama.com/
<http://geneorama.com/%20>*
>
>

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