Hi Roman - Based on advice form the list, here's what I did:
sudo apt purge r-cran-* r-base-* sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter3.5 sudo apt-get update sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/c2d4u3.5 sudo apt-get update dpkg -l | grep r-cran-* sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev Added my account to the 'staff' group, so that I can install non-recommended packages in R without 'sudo R' http://www.maketecheasier.com/add-remove-user-to-groups-in-ubuntu/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5560139/install-r- package-xml-in-debian-ubuntu sudo usermod -a -G staff myusername logout and restart Many packages are becoming available in the c2d4u3.5 repository. I've built/rebuild mostly from CRAN. However, to add pre-built binaries: sudo apt-get install r-cran-packagename Finally ... rebuild existing packages in '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library' > update.packages(checkBuilt= TRUE) One issues, to update recommended packages in '/usr/lib/R/site-library,, must start R as sudoer, ie. 'sudo R' Best. --Dale On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Aguirre Perez, Roman <ra...@exeter.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > first of all, my sincerest thanks for the maintainers of this massive > project. Such a compelling task! > > Briefly, I’m a PhD student working on Spatial Stats who loves R. Last week > I decided to install and use Ubuntu (again). Consequently, I install the > latest release (18.04) and tried to install R 3.5.0 as well but > (un)fortunately I couldn’t. > > I have used R within Ubuntu and I use to follow the installation procedure > suggested in the R-project website. However, this time was a bit different. > I realised I was missing a key fact. There’s plenty of work behind making > available R packages for Ubuntu! It briefly showed up in front of my eyes > the meaning of each installation step. That’s why I’m here. So I would > really appreciate you to enlighten me with your knowledge. I really want to > go in depth on the relationship R-Ubuntu. Btw, any resource for learning is > more than welcome. > > In this sense, which is the meaning of starting to install R by adding > > deb https://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic/< > https://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu%20bionic/> > > in the source.list file? > > I realised that I’m able to compile > > sudo apt-get install r-base > > without doing the first step. Which is the difference between each one? > > Now that I’m more aware I know that it isn’t so straightforward to mirror > to CRAN and I have to hold my horses a bit more jeje. So should I install > previous of both R and Ubuntu? I mean, does it take a long time to have a > mirrored version? > > > Best, > Roman. > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian