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

[Chris Sims]

Thanks, I had just discovered this myself by accident.

On 11/15/2012 02:59 PM, Michael Rutter wrote:
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> 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.
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>> Here is the offending line from my /etc/apt/sources.list file
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>> deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal
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> Chris,
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> This (your) version has incorrect syntax:
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> deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal
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> This works:
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> deb http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ quantal/
>                               ^
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> You need a trailing "/", as per the instructions on CRAN.
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> Michael
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