[R-sig-Debian] Attempting to update from R 2.14 to 2.15 on Ubuntu

[John Kane]

TAHDAH!
1> sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
Platform: i686-pc-linux-gnu (32-bit)

Thank you very much indeed.

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: marutter.psu at gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:56:16 -0400
> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Attempting to update from R 2.14 to 2.15 on
> Ubuntu
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/12/2012 02:42 PM, John Kane wrote:
>> R-SIG-Debian
>> 
>> I am very new to Linux so I probably am doing something stupid but I
>> cannot seem to update to R 2.15
>> Using Ubuntu 12.02 Precise Penguin
> 
> John,
> 
> If you are using Ubuntu, don't mix the Debian repositories with Ubuntu
> ones, it has the chance to create issues.
> 
> The simplest thing to do is to remove the line from sources.list that
> you added with that ends with squeeze-cran.
> 
> Then run the following command, which will add my R PPA from launchpad:
> 
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter
> 
> This is the PPA that feeds the CRAN mirrors.  Then run
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> And the latest versions of R should be installed.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Michael
> 
>> I realise that debian packages are not updated regularly so I tried to
>> follow the insructions at the R-site
>> 
>> So far, I have modified /etc/apt/sources.list to read
>> ## R CRAN added 2012-06-12
>> deb http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/
>> I also have updated my gpg code as instructed in
>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README  (thanks to Dan
>> Nordlund on the R-help list)
>> 
>> Results
>> sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E084DAB9
>> [sudo] password for john:
>> Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
>> --secret-keyring
>> /tmp/tmp.28YKFHKFht --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring
>> /etc/apt/trusted.gpg
>> --primary-keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
>> --recv-keys
>> E084DAB9
>> gpg: requesting key E084DAB9 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
>> gpg: key E084DAB9: public key "Michael Rutter <marutter at gmail.com>"
>> imported
>> gpg: Total number processed: 1
>> gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
>> 
>> 
>> ## So it looks like I have the gpg key but I get the same result as
>> ##before I added the key.
>> ## I get basically the same result with all the other approachs.
>> 
>> 
>> W: GPG error: http://probability.ca squeeze-cran/ Release: The following
>> signatures
>> couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY
>> 06F90DE5381BA480
>> john at john-K53U:~$
>> 
>> 
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>> 
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