[R] Instructions for upgrading R on ubuntu

[John Sorkin]

Jeff, Andrew,
When you come up with a solution to the upgrade problem, please send it to me. I have a similiar problem under Mint, which is an Unbuntu fork.
Thank you,
John

 
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>>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> 9/15/2013 1:11 PM >>>
"Apparently"? How is this apparent? I don't see this mentioned at CRAN [1]. Why would you reference some perhaps well-intentioned but possibly untrustworthy person's website when you could be downloading from a vetted distribution source?

[1] http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
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Andrew Crane-Droesch <andrewcd at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am trying to upgrade to R 3.0.1, and I am working on ubuntu. 
>Apparently, the new version is available in the following ppa: 
>https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u.  I have added this ppa 
>to my software sources.
>
>I then run the typical sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get
>dist-upgrade, 
>and R fails to upgrade from 2.15.2 to 3.0.1.  I then manually try to 
>sudo apt-get install r-base-dev, which does not recognize that a new 
>version is available from the newly-installed ppa.
>
>I have tried using the GUI Software Center as well -- it lists R as 
>installed, and makes no mention of the new version.
>
>Could someone be so kind as to post step-by-step instructions for 
>actually installing R 3.0.1?  Given issues with graphics in R2.15.2
>with 
>Ubuntu 13.04, I am sure that this will be useful to people besides me.
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew
>
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