On Jul 18, 2012, at 20:02 , chuckles the clone wrote: > Thanks! But no. sources.list already contains: > deb http://http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu oneiric/
If it is actually spelled like that, that may be the cause of your problem. Fixing what needs, I see that there is indeed a http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/oneiric/r-base-core_2.15.1-1oneiric0_amd64.deb file and several of its friends in that directory. > > Re-running any sort of apt-get results in the same failure to upgrade R. > > Is there some way of installing a version of this "spam" library which > is compatible with the version of R that apt-get insists on installing? > > (also, who decided to name this thing "spam"? i suppose it seemed > cute at the time but it is virtually impossible to google for. ) > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/installing-spam-package-is-failing-spam-0-29-1-tp4636628p4636918.html > Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel