[R-sig-Debian] cran ubuntu repository and ubuntu 12.10

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Chris,

On 15 November 2012 at 11:36, Chris Sims wrote:
| Since upgrading to quantal, I find that synaptic and apt-get cannot read 
| the sources.list file if it includes the previously standard line
| 
| deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal
| 
| This line makes apt-get or synaptic give an error message identifying 
| this line as having a syntax error.
| 
| If "multiverse" is added at the end of the line, the line is parsed, but 
| then apt-get or synaptic looks for non-existent directories on the server.

It may be the dreaded missing slash -- I have this 

deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu quantal/

on a recently set-up machine, and 'wajig update' (with wajig being a nice
cmdline wrapper by fellow R hacker Graham Williams) reveals, inter alia,

deddelbuettel at ubuntu-m600-1:~/R$ wajig update
[...]
Ign http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ InRelease
Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Release.gpg
Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Release
Hit http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Packages
Ign http://cran.us.r-project.org quantal/ Translation-en
[...]


Hope this helps,  Dirk

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