[R-sig-Debian] Problem upgrading to 2.11

[Michael Rutter]

On 07/26/2010 04:48 PM, Ben Domingue wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to upgrade to 2.11 from 2.10 in the hopes of gaining
> TCL/TK capabilities (let's pretend for the moment that this should
> work).  I've added "deb http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu
> lucid/" to /etc/apt/sources.list as described in the guide and have
> run
> apt-get update
> apt-get install r-base r-base-dev
> Things seem to work.  When I look at the installed packages on my
> machine, I see:
> bd at bd-laptop:~$ apt-show-versions | grep "r-base"
> r-base/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0
> r-base-core/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0
> r-base-dev/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0
> But when I run R, I'm still running 2.10:
>
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>
> locale:
> [1] C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> R.version
>                 _
> platform       x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> arch           x86_64
> os             linux-gnu
> system         x86_64, linux-gnu
> status
> major          2
> minor          10.1
> year           2009
> month          12
> day            14
> svn rev        50720
> language       R
> version.string R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
>
>
> What's going on?  Sorry if this has been addressed before; I've been
> unable to find it in the archives.
>
> Ben Domingue

Ben,

Not sure why you have:

 > r-base/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0

You should have:

r-base/lucid uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0

I think the first thing to do is remove R and then re-install.

sudo apt-get remove r-base r-base-dev
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev

If that does not work, resend the what apt-show-versions and R.version 
return.

Hope this helps,
Michael

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