[R-sig-Debian] Problem upgrading to 2.11

[Ben Domingue]

Perhaps this is me missing something obvious, but I've also noticed
that I'm still able to run R even though none of the r-base packages
seem to be installed (i.e. nothing is returned by apt-show-versions |
grep "r-base").  I'm not sure what to make of that, but thought it was
worth noting.

Ben

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Ben Domingue <ben.domingue at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Michael A. Rutter
>> School of Science
>> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
>> Station Road
>> Erie, PA 16563
>> http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter
>>
>
> 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)
>