[R-sig-Debian] cannot upgrade to R 2.9.1 in Ubuntu

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 10 August 2009 at 11:06, Luis Ridao Cruz wrote:
| R-SIG-Debian help,
| 
| At the moment the R version installed on my machine is 2.8.1. (Ubuntu 9.04)
| I wish to upgrade to  R 2.9.1.
| 
| I did:
| $ sudo apt-get upgrade

Did you also do 

     $ sudo apt-get update

to get current meta-information? Also do

     $ apt-cache policy r-base

which should show something like this

     $ apt-cache policy r-base
     r-base:
       Installed: (none)
       Candidate: 2.9.1-2jaunty
       Version table:
          2.9.1-2jaunty 0
             500 http://cran.us.r-project.org jaunty/ Packages
          2.8.1-1 0
             500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

Hoep this helps,  Dirk

| but R is not upgraded although the "sources.list" file is updated with:
| 
| deb http://cran.ii.uib.no/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/
| 
| When I run from the terminal I still get:
| 
| $ R
| R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
| Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| ISBN 3-900051-07-0
| 
| R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
| Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
| 
|   Natural language support but running in an English locale
| ........
| ........
| 
| 
| Thanks in advance
| 
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