[R-sig-Debian] Help for sources.list

[Michael Dewey]

At 14:23 05/06/2010, Ted Harding wrote:

>Greetings!
>I would be very grateful if someone could supply a suitable
>line to enter into /etc/apt/sources.list for the benefit of
>a complete dummy user (i.e. me -- I do not want to have to
>do any interpretation, guesswork, reading of docs, etc.;
>I want to just copy it in).

Ted, have you tried the line you can find by following the links from 
your favourite CRAN via R binaries, linux, debian?


>The machine in question is an Intel laptop, wuth Debian Lenny
>(according to the Debian website the current stable version
>as of 12 Feb 2010). The current contents of /etc/apt/sources.list
>are:
>=======
>deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
>
>deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
>deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
>
>deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
>deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
>
>deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
>=======
>
>I had not been using this machine for running R, until I tried it
>yesterday and was shocked to find that the R version installed is
>
>   R 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
>
>compared with the version I have on my regular machine, which is
>R 2.11.0 (2010-04-22). Then I was shocked, on visiting the Debian
>Lenny webpage, to find that the currently held version of R is
>the same as the above: "2.7.1-1+lenny" for all the basic R packages.
>No wonder I have not been getting updates!
>
>I am located in the UK.
>
>What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list ? (Maybe more than one
>line, if that would be relevant to installing/updating a variety
>of R packages).
>
>With thanks,
>Ted.
>
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>Date: 05-Jun-10                                       Time: 14:23:07
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Michael Dewey
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