R SIG Debian - Sep 2012 - Ensuring latest version of R is installed

Hi there, 
following the instructions shown here:
http://www.r-bloggers.com/ec2-micro-instance-of-rstudio/

I used 
 
sudo apt-get install r-baseto insall R on an Amazon EC2 server, but when I do
that I get an old cersion of R
 
> R.version.string
[1] "R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)" 
 
Do you know how I can change this command so that it installs the latest
version?Also are the ubuntu version numbers exactly equivalent to their windows
version numbers?
In particular I want to ensure the package "parallel" is installed. 
Kind Regards 
Hugh
 

  		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		   		 	   		  
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On 17 September 2012 at 16:13, Hugh Patience wrote:
| Hi there, 
| following the instructions shown here:
| http://www.r-bloggers.com/ec2-micro-instance-of-rstudio/
| 
| I used 
|  
| sudo apt-get install r-baseto insall R on an Amazon EC2 server, but when I do
that I get an old cersion of R
|  
| > R.version.string
| [1] "R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)" 
|  
| Do you know how I can change this command so that it installs the latest
version?Also are the ubuntu version numbers exactly equivalent to their windows
version numbers?
| In particular I want to ensure the package "parallel" is installed. 

Please read the README in the bin/linux/ubuntu/ directory on any CRAN mirror, eg

   http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu

and follow the instructions.  By adding a new and current source of R
packages, provided by CRAN, you get the current version of R -- ie 2.15.1	    

Dirk

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