[R] Upgrading To 2.10 from 2.6.2

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On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:52 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
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> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 7:14 PM,  <Steve_Friedman at nps.gov> wrote:
>> Hi Stephen,
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>> After running the script
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>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install r-base
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>> I launch R and find the it still refers to R 2.6.2.
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>> How do I insure that R 2.10.0 is the active version of R ?
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>> Thanks for the help.
>>
>> Steve
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>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
>> <stephen4mailinglists at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Iain Gallagher
>> <iaingallagher at btopenworld.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi Steve
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>>>> Have you tried:
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>>>> apt-cache search gfortran
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>>>> in a terminal window.
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>>>> Then
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>>>> sudo apt-get install theRelevantPackage
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>>>> I think you also need the Universe repos enabled.
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>>>> HTH
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>>>> Iain
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>>>> --- On Tue, 8/12/09, Steve_Friedman at nps.gov <Steve_Friedman at nps.gov>
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>>>> > From: Steve_Friedman at nps.gov <Steve_Friedman at nps.gov>
>>>> > Subject: [R] Upgrading To 2.10 from 2.6.2
>>>> > To: r-help at r-project.org
>>>> > Date: Tuesday, 8 December, 2009, 13:38
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>>>> > Hello
>>>> >
>>>> > I have a Linux machine (Ubuntu 8.04 hardy, Gcc version
>>>> > 4.2.4
>>>> > (i486-linux-gnu) currently running R 2.6.2. I'd like to
>>>> > upgrade to 2.10.
>>>> >
>>>> > First Question):  What is the appropriate way to
>>>> > remove the old version of
>>>> > R?
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>>>> > Part 2.
>>>> >  After downloading  r-base_2.10.0.orig.tar.gz and
>>>> > opening the archive. I
>>>> > ran the ./configure routine.
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>>>> > It failed claiming that it could not find the F77
>>>> > compiler.
>>>> >
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>> repost
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>> Why not add the CRAN repository to your sources list in Ubuntu and let
>> your package manager (synaptic?/apt?) sort it out for you.  Version
>> 2.10 is available here for Hardy.  It is a good way to keep your
>> version of R up to date without worrying about what is happening with
>> the rest of your machine, which may be quite comfortably stable, and
>> it saves the hassle of you having to compile it yourself
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>> see pages at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
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>> You will need to add a line similar to the one below to
>> /etc/apt/sources.list
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>> deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/
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>> you could edit the file directly or do it via synaptic or Gnome menu
>> (system/admin)
>>  has an entry for software sources.
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Did you see whether it installed 2.10?
 If you fired up synaptic and click on origin do you see a CRAN mirror
 site with some packages to be able to select?  If so is 2.10 amongst
 them?

have you added the gpg signing key?


-- 
Stephen