On 30 May 2010 at 13:25, Michael Friendly wrote: | Thanks for this Johannes | | Johannes Ranke wrote: | >> euclid: /etc/apt # apt-get -t unstable install r-base r-base-dev | >> | > | > Why did you use -t unstable? The distribution on CRAN for lenny is called | > lenny-cran, not unstable. | Because that's what it said to do at | | > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian
Indeed. I am sure Johannes will correct this. | > Anyway, tagging should not be necessary. What does | > | > apt-cache policy r-base-core | > | > tell you? It should list both R 2.7.1 from lenny and R 2.11.0 from lenny-cran. | > | > | % apt-cache policy r-base-core | r-base-core: | Installed: 2.7.1-1+lenny1 | Candidate: 2.7.1-1+lenny1 | Version table: | 2.11.0-2 0 | 200 http://debian.yorku.ca testing/main Packages | 2.11.0-1~lennycran.0 0 | 500 http://cran.R-project.org lenny-cran/ Packages | *** 2.7.1-1+lenny1 0 | 900 http://debian.yorku.ca stable/main Packages | 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status This shows that your computer knows about three sources of r-base-core. Given you seem to prefer stable ("lenny"), how come we are seeing testing there as well? | So, does this mean I should do | | apt-get -t lenny-cran install r-base r-base-dev That may work, yes. I have been running testing, probably since we created that branch, so I am not the best person to say what happens on a 'stable' system but the invocation looks correct. | (If the instructions on http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian | are out of date, maybe someone should correct them.) Sure. And feel free to provide a patch, for this or other aspects where you see possible improvements. Changes are not falling from the sky, and we're all volunteers. -- Regards, Dirk _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian