R SIG Debian - Nov 2012 - cran ubuntu repository and ubuntu 12.10

Since upgrading to quantal, I find that synaptic and apt-get cannot read 
the sources.list file if it includes the previously standard line

deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal

This line makes apt-get or synaptic give an error message identifying 
this line as having a syntax error.

If "multiverse" is added at the end of the line, the line is parsed,
but
then apt-get or synaptic looks for non-existent directories on the server.

I suggest you try another CRAN mirror. I use cran.us.r-project.org and
don't have any problems.  As that mirror is the site of the Bioconductor
project, they are very good about keeping the mirror up to date.


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Chris Sims <sims@princeton.edu> wrote:
> Since upgrading to quantal, I find that synaptic and apt-get cannot read
> the sources.list file if it includes the previously standard line
>
> deb
http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/**CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/<http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/>quantal
>
> This line makes apt-get or synaptic give an error message identifying this
> line as having a syntax error.
>
> If "multiverse" is added at the end of the line, the line is
parsed, but
> then apt-get or synaptic looks for non-existent directories on the server.
>
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Hi Chris,

On 15 November 2012 at 11:36, Chris Sims wrote:
| Since upgrading to quantal, I find that synaptic and apt-get cannot read 
| the sources.list file if it includes the previously standard line
| 
| deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal
| 
| This line makes apt-get or synaptic give an error message identifying 
| this line as having a syntax error.
| 
| If "multiverse" is added at the end of the line, the line is parsed,
but
| then apt-get or synaptic looks for non-existent directories on the server.

It may be the dreaded missing slash -- I have this 

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

on a recently set-up machine, and 'wajig update' (with wajig being a
nice
cmdline wrapper by fellow R hacker Graham Williams) reveals, inter alia,

deddelbuettel at ubuntu-m600-1:~/R$ wajig update
[...]
Ign http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ InRelease
Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Release.gpg
Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Release
Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Packages
Ign http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Translation-en
[...]


Hope this helps,  Dirk

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