[R-sig-Debian] R packages for [K]Ubuntu now available

[Vincent Goulet]

A quick note to "publicly advertise" the immediate availability of packages of 
R 2.4.1 for Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) and Edgy Eft (6.10), straight off 
CRAN. 

>From the README:

R packages for Ubuntu on i386 are available. The plans are to support at
least the latest Ubuntu release and the latest LTS release. Currently
(January 2007), these are Edgy Eft (6.10) and Dapper Drake (6.06),
respectively.

To obtain the latest R packages, add an entry like

  deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu edgy/

or

  deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/

in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. See http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
for the list of CRAN mirrors. To install the complete R system, use

  sudo apt-get install r-base r-recommended

The R packages for Ubuntu should otherwise behave like the Debian ones. For
more information, see the README file in

  http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian/

The Debian R packages are maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Doug Bates. I 
merely compile the Ubuntu packages for i386. Volunteers would be welcome to 
create packages for the other architectures supported by Ubuntu.

Cheers,

-- 
  Vincent Goulet, Associate Professor
  École d'actuariat
  Université Laval, Québec 
  Vincent.Goulet at act.ulaval.ca   http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca