[R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

[msmith]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion and I wish the solution was that obvious, but I
have changed it to really point at my favourite mirror.

Using your example Synaptic reports the following error when I try to update
the repositories:

http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz:
404 Not Found

This is understandable since that location doesn't exist, but it makes me
think that the directory structure of the R mirrors is not compatible with
Ubuntu and Synaptic, since it automatically seeks /dists/feisty/ rather than
just /feisty/ as it is on the CRAN mirrors.

Thanks again
Mike Smith


Stefan Grosse-2 wrote:
> 
> 
>>  to end of the entry making it:
>>
>>  deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main
>>
>> However after this it still complains that it can't find "packages.gz"
>>
>>   
> 
> Just a guess: have you replaced the my.favorite.cran.mirror by a mirror
> which is close to you? If you're in UK it would be for example
> 
> deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main
> 
> ;o)
> Stefan
> 
>> It appears to be looking in 
>> http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu/distsfeisty
>> which isn't the directory structure of the cran repository, but 
>> I can see anyway to modify this behaviour.  Every other Ubuntu repositoy
>> I have looked at contains the dists directory.
>>
>> Any suggestions for modifying this behaviour are gratefully recieved.
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Mike Smith
>>
>>
>>   
> 
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