[R] Help: Upgrading to R2.5 on Ubuntu (Feisty)

[Paulo Tanimoto]

Dear Matt,

Did you issue:
$ sudo apt-get update

before running:
$ sudo apt-get install r-base

Now, let me tell you one thing about Linux and particularly
Debian/Ubuntu.  We are spoiled to the point that we love the official
repositories.  Because the official packages go through some testing,
we tend to sacrifice a little bit of cutting edge for
stability/reliability.  If you don't think you need anything specific
from version 2.5.0, I would recommend you to stick with the current
version, 2.4.1.  You'll also have several packages already compiled
for you if you do that.

I hope it helps.

Paulo






On 6/18/07, M. Jankowski <mjankowski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you in advance for reading this help request. I am pretty new to
> R. I am experiencing some issues getting 2.5 installed on my Ubuntu
> Fiesty system and
> seek your advice.
>
> To the best of my ability I followed the instructions here:
>
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README
>
> Setting this as the last line in my sources.list:
> deb http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/
>
> When I typed in:
>
> mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$ sudo apt-get install r-base
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> r-base is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> mdj at lapmdj:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library$
>
> But when I go to R and check my version:
>
> > version
>               _
> platform       i486-pc-linux-gnu
> arch           i486
> os             linux-gnu
> system         i486, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          4.1
> year           2006
> month          12
> day            18
> svn rev        40228
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
> >
>
> My version is still 2.4.1. I must be missing something. What do I need
> to do to get R version 2.5 installed on my ubuntu feisty (7.04)
> system? Let me know if there is any additional information I need to
> give to be helped out with this.
>
> Thank you for taking a look at this,
> Sincerely,
> Matt
>
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