[R] Instructions for upgrading R on ubuntu

[Jeff Newmiller]

Ah, my apologies to Mr. Rutter are due then, but a proper reference by the OP would have clarified this.
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Berend Hasselman <bhh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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>On 15-09-2013, at 19:11, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
>wrote:
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>> "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?
>> 
>
>Well, M.A. Rutter builds the Ubuntu R packages. 
>See
>http://www.personal.psu.edu/mar36/blogs/the_ubuntu_r_blog/installing-r.html
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>R 3.0.1 has been available for Ubuntu for quite some time.
>
>I've had no problem in installing this R in a virtual Kubuntu Precise
>(and Ubuntu Lucid).
>When following the instructions on CRAN.
>
>Berend
>
>> [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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