[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

Just to bring closure here -- further off-list mail lead to 

     $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

which upgraded R to 2.9.1 as expected.

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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