[R-sig-Debian] Problem updating packages in 2.15.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

[John C Nash]

The PPA for latest Ubuntu packages doesn't seem to be in the sources list.

https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter

Also see the CRAN page (I've used the probability.ca mirror)

http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/

Best, JN

On 08/01/2012 02:02 AM, Chris Evans wrote:
> The specific message is:
> "Warning: package 'spatial' in library '/usr/lib/R/library' will not be updated"
> 
> and the number of libraries about which that's the complaint is now increasingly almost
> daily so clearly something is wrong.
> 
> I'm working on a laptop on which I do the recommended Ubuntu updates daily.  I done a
> standard installation of R 2.15.1 using synaptic with:
> 
> deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
> deb-src http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
> 
> in /etc/apt/sources.list and I added most of the optional packages that are packaged at
> that source.
> 
> I have been updating going into R through "sudo R" in my home directory and then using
> "update.packages(instlib=.libPaths()[1],ask=FALSE)"
> 
> However, that gets these complaints about not updating.  I get the same message if I use:
> "update.packages(ask=FALSE)"
> 
> I get the same if I use "su" rather than sudo and if I update as an ordinary user and if I
> point to a different mirror repository (I have been using Switzerland as Bristol seemed to
> be lagging behind Switzerland a lot).
> 
> I was doing to that without a personal library but tried updating as an ordinary user and
> created a personal library as prompted but that still gets the same but that means that my
> .libPaths() is now:
> 
>> .libPaths()
> [1] "/home/chris/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15"
> [2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
> [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library"
> [4] "/usr/lib/R/library"
> 
> I think I've read and understood umpteen questions about the different ways of updating
> libraries on this list.  I would like to update to the latest library versions regularly
> (as 2.15.1 for Windoze in a VM box on this machine does fine).  Clearly I don't understand
> something and am doing something wrong.  Please can someone enlighten me?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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