"Apparently"? How is this apparent? I don't see this mentioned at CRAN [1]. Why would you reference some perhaps well-intentioned but possibly untrustworthy person's website when you could be downloading from a vetted distribution source?
[1] http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Andrew Crane-Droesch <andre...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am trying to upgrade to R 3.0.1, and I am working on ubuntu. >Apparently, the new version is available in the following ppa: >https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u. I have added this ppa >to my software sources. > >I then run the typical sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get >dist-upgrade, >and R fails to upgrade from 2.15.2 to 3.0.1. I then manually try to >sudo apt-get install r-base-dev, which does not recognize that a new >version is available from the newly-installed ppa. > >I have tried using the GUI Software Center as well -- it lists R as >installed, and makes no mention of the new version. > >Could someone be so kind as to post step-by-step instructions for >actually installing R 3.0.1? Given issues with graphics in R2.15.2 >with >Ubuntu 13.04, I am sure that this will be useful to people besides me. > >Thanks, >Andrew > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >PLEASE do read the posting guide >http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.