[R-sig-Debian] problems apt-getting from CRAN

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 14 February 2007 at 15:29, Federico Calboli wrote:
| Hi there,
| 
| I hope that's not been asked ad nauseam (but I could not find it in the 
| archives...) but, if I put a CRAN mirror in my sources.list and I try to install 
| the latest R version for 'testing' I get the warning that the packages cannot be 
| autenticated.
| 
| I tried to figure out how to get a GPG key from the mirror I'm using (the 
| austrian one) in case that's the solution, but fat chance! apt-get update does 
| not return any error anyawy, i.e. does not warn me of any missing GPG key from 
| the CRAN mirror.
| 
| Any suggestion would be apprecciated.

I'd guess it's simply missing.  Try wiki.debian.org for info on how to
_create_ such a key, and then convince someone at CRAN to create one.

Dirk

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