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

[Thomas Harte]

mike,

try installing directly using apt-get instead of Synaptic. 

in my /etc/apt/sources.list i added the line:

	deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ dapper/ 

and then i did:

	bash$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-doc-html r-mathlib  r-base-html
r-base-latex r-base-dev r-gnome

recently to update to R 2.5.1 on my version of Ubuntu (6.06).

cheers,

thomas.


> Message: 98
> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:34:37 -0700 (PDT)
> From: msmith <msmith at ebi.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?
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> 
> 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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