Vincent Goulet
2007-Jan-24 20:20 UTC
[R-sig-Debian] R packages for [K]Ubuntu now available
A quick note to "publicly advertise" the immediate availability of packages of R 2.4.1 for Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) and Edgy Eft (6.10), straight off CRAN.>From the README:R packages for Ubuntu on i386 are available. The plans are to support at least the latest Ubuntu release and the latest LTS release. Currently (January 2007), these are Edgy Eft (6.10) and Dapper Drake (6.06), respectively. To obtain the latest R packages, add an entry like deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu edgy/ or deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. See http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html for the list of CRAN mirrors. To install the complete R system, use sudo apt-get install r-base r-recommended The R packages for Ubuntu should otherwise behave like the Debian ones. For more information, see the README file in http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ The Debian R packages are maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Doug Bates. I merely compile the Ubuntu packages for i386. Volunteers would be welcome to create packages for the other architectures supported by Ubuntu. Cheers, -- Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor ?cole d'actuariat Universit? Laval, Qu?bec Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca