R SIG Debian - May 2010 - R 2.11.0 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on CRAN

Dear Ubunutu R users,

Vincent Goulet and myself would like to announce the availability of R 
2.11.0 for Ubuntu's latest release, Lucid Lynx.  The packages should be 
on or arriving soon to your favorite mirror.  R 2.11.0 packages also 
exist on CRAN for all Ubuntu releases going back to hardy.

As Johannes Ranke pointed out for the Debian release, R packages 
installed under R < 2.10.0 may have to be updated or rebuilt because of 
changes in the R help system.

If you have any problems, please let us know.

Michael
-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter

Many thanks for your efforts!

Just wondering whether the patch for the "segfault with
format.POSIXct()" will make its way into the ubuntu repositories
anytime soon?

Not sure how to cross reference the R-devel post.  It's this message:

from	Sebastian P. Luque <spluque at gmail.com>
reply-to	r-devel at r-project.org
to	r-devel at r-project.org
date	Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 7:32 PM
subject	[Rd] segfault with format.POSIXct()

Thanks,
Whit


On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu>
wrote:
> Dear Ubunutu R users,
>
> Vincent Goulet and myself would like to announce the availability of R
> 2.11.0 for Ubuntu's latest release, Lucid Lynx. ?The packages should be
on
> or arriving soon to your favorite mirror. ?R 2.11.0 packages also exist on
> CRAN for all Ubuntu releases going back to hardy.
>
> As Johannes Ranke pointed out for the Debian release, R packages installed
> under R < 2.10.0 may have to be updated or rebuilt because of changes in
the
> R help system.
>
> If you have any problems, please let us know.
>
> Michael
> --
> Dr. Michael A. Rutter
> School of Science
> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
> Station Road
> Erie, PA 16563
> http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
>
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Debian mailing list
> R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
>

Dear Michael,

First of all, thank you very much for your work.

Some weeks ago I upgraded the Ubuntu system of my laptop from 9.10
(Karmic) to 10.4 (Lucid), in which I had R 2.11.0, and everything went
ok with R 2.11.0.

Yesterday, I did the same with the PC of my office, but when I tried
to update the packages with:
> update.packages(checkBuilt=T)

I got the following error (I apologize because the messages are in Spanish):
> update.packages(checkBuilt=T)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
Loading Tcl/Tk interface ... done
Aviso: unable to access index for repository
http://cran.uk.r-project.org/src/contrib
Mensajes de aviso perdidos
In open.connection(con, "r") :
  no fue posible conectarse a 'cran.r-project.org' en el puerto 80.


what is really strange for me, because when I try 'apt-get update'
from the system console everything works fine (I didn't changed the
proxy set up after the upgrade).


I would like to know if this problem is due to the fact of the
uploading process of the new release 2.11.1 or if the problem is on my
side.


By the way, this morning I upgraded to the new release 2.11.1 and I
still have the same error message (I have tried with several mirrors).

Thanks in advance,

Mauricio

PS,
some details of my R version:
> R.Version()
$platform
[1] "i486-pc-linux-gnu"

$arch
[1] "i486"

$os
[1] "linux-gnu"

$system
[1] "i486, linux-gnu"

$status
[1] ""

$major
[1] "2"

$minor
[1] "11.1"

$`svn rev`
[1] "52157"

$language
[1] "R"

$version.string
[1] "R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)"

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?=========================Dept. of Civil and Env. Engineering
University of Trento, Italy



2010/5/4 Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu>:
> Dear Ubunutu R users,
>
> Vincent Goulet and myself would like to announce the availability of R
> 2.11.0 for Ubuntu's latest release, Lucid Lynx. ?The packages should be
on
> or arriving soon to your favorite mirror. ?R 2.11.0 packages also exist on
> CRAN for all Ubuntu releases going back to hardy.
>
> As Johannes Ranke pointed out for the Debian release, R packages installed
> under R < 2.10.0 may have to be updated or rebuilt because of changes in
the
> R help system.
>
> If you have any problems, please let us know.
>
> Michael
> --
> Dr. Michael A. Rutter
> School of Science
> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
> Station Road
> Erie, PA 16563
> http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
>
> _______________________________________________
> R-SIG-Debian mailing list
> R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
>