[R-sig-Debian] Trying to upgrade from R 2.7.1

Paul Johnson pauljohn32 at gmail.com
Thu May 27 18:24:58 CEST 2010


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Michael Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> wrote:
> [Running debian stable]
>
> I followed the instructions at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian,
> adding
> deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/
> to /etc/apt/sources.list.  But apt-get still leaves me with R 2.7.1.
>
> How can I diagnose what's wrong or correct this?
>


Hi, Michael.

I don't do Debian, but I have Ubuntu and know a bit about packaging problems.

I believe the problem is this.  If you go to


> euclid: /etc/apt # apt-get update
> Hit http://debian.yorku.ca stable Release.gpg
> Ign http://debian.yorku.ca stable/main Translation-en_CA
>                  Hit http://debian.yorku.ca stable/updates Release.gpg
>                                   Ign http://debian.yorku.ca
> stable/updates/main Translation-en_CA         Hit http://debian.yorku.ca
> testing Release.gpg                           Ign http://debian.yorku.ca
> testing/main Translation-en_CA                Hit http://debian.yorku.ca
> stable Release                                Hit http://debian.yorku.ca
> stable/updates Release                        Hit http://debian.yorku.ca
> testing Release                               Ign http://debian.yorku.ca
> stable/main Packages/DiffIndex                                           Ign
> http://debian.yorku.ca stable/main Sources/DiffIndex
>                    Hit http://debian.yorku.ca stable/main Packages
>                                     Hit http://debian.yorku.ca stable/main
> Sources                                                Ign
> http://debian.yorku.ca stable/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
>                     Hit http://debian.yorku.ca stable/updates/main Packages
>                                             Hit http://debian.yorku.ca
> testing/main Packages/DiffIndex                                    Hit
> http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release.gpg                Ign
> http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Translation-en_CA     Get: 1
> http://cran.R-project.org lenny-cran/ Release.gpg [197B]          Ign
> http://cran.R-project.org lenny-cran/ Translation-en_CA              Hit
> http://security.debian.org stable/updates Release                    Ign
> http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
> Get: 2 http://cran.R-project.org lenny-cran/ Release [1288B]
> Hit http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main Packages
> Ign http://cran.R-project.org lenny-cran/ Packages
> Get: 3 http://cran.R-project.org lenny-cran/ Packages [11.1kB]
> Fetched 12.5kB in 2s (5597B/s) Reading package lists... Done
>
>
> euclid: /etc/apt # apt-get -t unstable install r-base r-base-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree      Reading state information... Done
> r-base is already the newest version.
> r-base-dev is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 715 not upgraded.
>
> euclid: /etc/apt # R --version
> R version 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>
>
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