[R] Instructions for upgrading R on ubuntu

[Andrew Crane-Droesch]

Indeed, the instructions at CRAN work (with the small addition that one 
needs to be a superuser to edit the software sources).  The confusion 
arose because the c2d4u PPA is the main search result when googling 
"upgrade R 3.0.1 ubuntu".

Andrew

On 09/15/2013 11:04 AM, Jeff Newmiller wrote:
> John, the instructions at CRAN have worked for me.
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> John Sorkin <JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>> 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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