[R-sig-Debian] Re : Install latest R version from apt on Lenny

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi David,

I will add a note in the README in order to help avoid this problem with the 
backport of R 2.11.0 I am currently building.

Kind regards,

Johannes

Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2010 12:37:46 schrieb Biau David:
> OK, thanks both. I'll try that. I suspect (very strongly) that it comes
>  from the fact that I did not replace the cran mirror line by an actulal
>  cran mirror URLs... I will give a look at all my backports this weekend
>  and do a little cleaning too!
> 
> thanks,
>  
> David Biau.
>  
> #################################
> 
> From: Johannes Ranke <jranke at uni-bremen.de>
> To: r-sig-debian at r-project.org
> 
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Re : Install latest R version from apt on
>     Lenny
> Message-ID: <201004191530.15406.jranke at uni-bremen.de>
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> if you want the latest R version on lenny, please follow the instructions
>  in the README that Dirk gave already pointed to:
> 
>     http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
> 
> Installing packages with the method Denis just sketched is much more
> cumbersome as dependencies are not automatically resolved.
> 
> Note that in the line
> 
>     deb http://<favorite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/
> 
> you need to substitude <favorite-cran-mirror> by one of the mirror URLs
>  listed in
> 
>     http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Johannes
>