Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04: updating options

2012-08-07 Thread Chris Evans
Really odd to know what to say to this Paul, always a challenge to know how to mix the personal/human and the technological on techno lists. Well, I'm way too old to be a boy scout. I've been using R for about 13 years I think, S+ before that, SAS and SPSS (ugh) before that. About 25 years

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04: updating options

2012-08-05 Thread Michael Rutter
On 08/03/2012 11:16 AM, Chris Evans wrote: -- Lines deleted -- I know for sure from previous debates here that the Debian packagers expect you to use the packages they provide, and they don't think ordinary users should bother trying to compile packages. OK. Is that true packagers? I've

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04: updating options

2012-08-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Chris Evans chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: I have changed the subject line to reflect a thread split. Paul Johnson sent the following at 02/08/12 18:39: ... much snipped that was continued in my last posting ... I'm not an unkind person, I'm not trying to

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Evans
[Sorry to those who know all of this, just delete, I think it's worth it getting in the list archives and hence the googleSphere.] Paul Johnson sent the following at 02/08/12 18:39: Greetings On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Chris Evans chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: Paul Johnson sent the

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04: updating options

2012-08-03 Thread Chris Evans
I have changed the subject line to reflect a thread split. Paul Johnson sent the following at 02/08/12 18:39: ... much snipped that was continued in my last posting ... I'm not an unkind person, I'm not trying to insult you by ignoring the rest of your message. Lets fix one thing at a

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

2012-08-02 Thread Chris Evans
John C Nash sent the following at 01/08/12 15:30: The PPA for latest Ubuntu packages doesn't seem to be in the sources list. https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter Aha. OK. Fixed that. That seems to have meant that cran, coda and spatial have now been updated (by apt-get

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Greetings On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Chris Evans chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: Paul Johnson sent the following at 01/08/12 16:01: On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Chris Evans chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: The specific message is: Warning: package 'spatial' in library '/usr/lib/R/library'

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

2012-08-01 Thread John C Nash
The PPA for latest Ubuntu packages doesn't seem to be in the sources list. https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter Also see the CRAN page (I've used the probability.ca mirror) http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/ Best, JN On 08/01/2012 02:02 AM, Chris Evans wrote: The

Re: [R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Chris Evans chrish...@psyctc.org wrote: The specific message is: Warning: package 'spatial' in library '/usr/lib/R/library' will not be updated and the number of libraries about which that's the complaint is now increasingly almost daily so clearly something