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

[Michael Rutter]

On 11/15/2012 01:28 PM, Chris Sims wrote:
> The problem is that the sources.list line is seen as having a syntax
> error when there is no entry after "quantal" (e.g. main, or universe,
> etc.) on the line. So it doesn't matter which repository name I put in
> it.  I have tried several (including the one you suggest) already.
>
> Here is the offending line from my /etc/apt/sources.list file
>
> deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal

Chris,

This (your) version has incorrect syntax:

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

This works:

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

You need a trailing "/", as per the instructions on CRAN.

Michael




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