R SIG Debian - Sep 2012 - How to upgrade from 2.15.1 to 2.15.1 patched?

Hi,

I would like to upgrade R-2.15.1 to R-2.15.1 patched (under Ubuntu 12.04).
What's
the recommended way to do so?

I did the following steps for installing R under Ubuntu 12.04 (as far as I
remember, Dirk Eddelbuettel recommended this and helped me on several occasions
with the installation):

1) sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list
2) add:
   deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
3) do:
   gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
   gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
4) do:
   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install r-base

Cheers,

Marius

On 09/22/2012 12:54 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to upgrade R-2.15.1 to R-2.15.1 patched (under Ubuntu 12.04).
What's
> the recommended way to do so?
>
> I did the following steps for installing R under Ubuntu 12.04 (as far as I
> remember, Dirk Eddelbuettel recommended this and helped me on several
occasions
> with the installation):
>
> 1) sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list
> 2) add:
>     deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
> 3) do:
>     gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
>     gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
> 4) do:
>     sudo apt-get update
>     sudo apt-get install r-base
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
Marius,

That should work.  Not sure what you mean by "patched" however.  Is 
there something in particular you are hoping to get from the CRAN 
version of R for Ubuntu?

Michael

-- 
Dr. Michael A. Rutter
School of Science
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
4205 College Drive
Erie, PA 16563
http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
mar36 at psu.edu

On 22 September 2012 at 18:54, Marius Hofert wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I would like to upgrade R-2.15.1 to R-2.15.1 patched (under Ubuntu 12.04).
What's
| the recommended way to do so?
| 
| I did the following steps for installing R under Ubuntu 12.04 (as far as I
| remember, Dirk Eddelbuettel recommended this and helped me on several
occasions
| with the installation):
| 
| 1) sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list
| 2) add:
|    deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
| 3) do:
|    gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
|    gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
| 4) do:
|    sudo apt-get update
|    sudo apt-get install r-base

We generally follow R Core releases, and the packaged versions are the actual
releases.

In other words, there are no .deb packages I am aware of that contain patch
releases.  

Dirk


-- 
Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com