[R] Cant upgrade R in ubuntu 14.04

[peter dalgaard]

That is an Ubuntu issue, not an R one.

- Peter D.

> On 08 Aug 2015, at 06:31 , boredstoog via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I am trying to install R programming language and able to install rbase
> using this code without adding repository in *source.list*
> 
> sudo apt-get install r-base
> 
> After that i tried to upgrade it using this code
> 
> sudo add-apt-repository ‘deb
> http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/’
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> But when i tried the first code
> 
> sudo add-apt-repository ‘deb
> http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/’
> 
> its giving this error
> 
> Error: need a single repository as argument
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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