[R-sig-Debian] Upgrading R packages on Etch

[Johannes Ranke]

Hallo again,

I am glad you got the packages installed, although I would also like to know 
what was the problem in the first place. By the way, I think using "sudo" 
really is not necessary on a Debian system, as I am assuming you operated 
using the root account anyway. This just came into it because Dirk is more 
used to helping Ubuntu users and uses Ubuntu himself, too.

After install r-base-core, simply typing

	apt-get install r-recommended

as root should definitely have pulled in all all the dependencies of r-
recommended (r-cran-cluster, r-cran-codetools, ...).

If anyone observes similar phenomena as Ted, please report.

Kind regards,

Johannes



Am Mittwoch, 11. November 2009 13:32:03 schrieb Ted Harding:
> On 10-Nov-09 20:37:48, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would just like to second Dirks comments. Especially I would
> > like to see  what happens if you
> > ...
> >
> >>  try 'sudo apt-get install r-base-core'. That _will_ show the
> >> cause, and you _still_ have a chance to back out by saying 'No'
> >> to the 'do you really want to do this' question.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Johannes
> 
> Well, I tried that, first on r-base-core. Got no warnings, so
> I went ahead and accepted to proceed. There was a warning that
> it "could not be authenticated", but I'm used to that and so
> answered "Y". It then downloaded and duly replaced my r-base-core.
> 
> Since that apparently went well, I then did exactly the same
> (with exactly the same results) for each of the other packages
> that aptitude/update-manager etc. had turned up their noses at
> previously:
> 
>     r-base-core r-cran-boot r-cran-cluster r-cran-codetools
>     r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv
>     r-cran-nlme r-cran-rpart r-cran-survival r-cran-vr
>     r-recommended
> 
> I haven't tested it all out yet, so my fingers are still crossed.
> But, presuming it will work, I have to say that I'm grateful
> for the help and guidance on this question. And it confirms
> what should probably be a better way to go in future.
> 
> But it leaves dangling the question: Why wouldn't it work in
> the first place? Using the 'sudo' route did not reveal any
> cause of why it would not work before!
> 
> With thanks to all,
> Ted.
> 
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