[R] Apt-get

[Scott Raynaud]

My IS people insist that the latest version of R avaialble via apt-get is 
2.13.1.  Anything later they claim will have to be compiled.  True?
Will I have to compile every time I update R?  Seems like a lot of work.
Surely there's a way around it.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
To: Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud at yahoo.com>; "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [R] Apt-get

Google is really useful for questions like this.

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
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Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud at yahoo.com> wrote:

>I have a box set up with Kubuntu as the OS.  I didn't perform 
>the R install but was told the version of R available via the
>apt-get command was 2.13.1.  Is there any way to get 2.14.0
>in that same manner?
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