[R-sig-Debian] updating r-cran- packages on a new Ubuntu lucid system

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 1 February 2011 at 10:56, Michael Friendly wrote:
| On 1/31/2011 12:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 31 January 2011 at 09:04, Michael Friendly wrote:
| > | I'm not any further ahead in trying to update vcd from 1.2-7 to 1.2-9.
| > | How can I resolve this?
| >
| > If what you're doing doesn't work, do something else.   The .deb package are
| > convenient.  They can't all be recent because, well, a distro has release
| > schedules.
| >
| OK:   I used (as sudo)
| install.packages("vcd"),
| and it seemed to work;  however old.packages() still reports vcd at 
| 1.2-7.  Why is that?

You supplied no information that would enable us to tell you.

What does '.libPaths()' show?

Dirk

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