No, I repaired that immediately and tried again. It failed in the same way, re-installing the old version. I tried commenting out everything in the sources list except the CRAN archive and then R could not be installed.
Sorry, no. I does not "just work". >From what I can tell, the initial install was done from one of the ubuntu, not CRAN, repositories. And the version there was 2.13. Once that has happened, it does not appear to be possible to upgrade to 2.15 at all. As a result, I am upgrading my ENTIRE INSTALLATION of ubuntu. In hopes that that might kick something in the broken apt-get repository and maybe I'll get a new version of R. But still, this is all JUST SO I CAN INSTALL THE "SPAM" PACKAGE! The spam package dependencies are broken such that it does not "just work". The latest "spam" package CANNOT be installed on R version 2.13 AND YET IT TRIES AND THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE ANY WAY TO CAUSE AN EARLIER VERSION TO BE INSTALLED INSTEAD. I'm sorry that attempting to get your just-works system to install does not work to the point where I have to ask for assistance. But it does not. And there is no documentation which even poorly describes what is happening here. So I have no recourse but to ask. I am happy it works for you as a maintainer and apologise that it does not for me, a user. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/installing-spam-package-is-failing-spam-0-29-1-tp4636628p4636981.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