[R-sig-Debian] Problem upgrading to 2.11

[Ben Domingue]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> 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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> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
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> Erie, PA 16563
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>

Thanks Michael.  I did what you suggested, but I still have
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
r-base-html/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0

The only thing I can think is that it may be related to the mirror.
The line in my sources.list reads:
deb http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu lucid/
which seems right, but perhaps I'm missing something.  I'm not
bothering with the key, so perhaps that is part of the problem...
Here is the R.version:
> 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)