That is an Ubuntu issue, not an R one.
- Peter D.
> On 08 Aug 2015, at 06:31 , boredstoog via R-help <r-help at
r-project.org> wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to install R programming language and able to install rbase
> using this code without adding repository in *source.list*
>
> sudo apt-get install r-base
>
> After that i tried to upgrade it using this code
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ?deb
> http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/?
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> But when i tried the first code
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ?deb
> http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/?
>
> its giving this error
>
> Error: need a single repository as argument
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