[R-sig-Debian] How to upgrade from 2.15.1 to 2.15.1 patched?

[Michael Rutter]

On 09/22/2012 12:54 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to upgrade R-2.15.1 to R-2.15.1 patched (under Ubuntu 12.04). What's
> the recommended way to do so?
>
> I did the following steps for installing R under Ubuntu 12.04 (as far as I
> remember, Dirk Eddelbuettel recommended this and helped me on several occasions
> with the installation):
>
> 1) sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list
> 2) add:
>     deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
> 3) do:
>     gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
>     gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
> 4) do:
>     sudo apt-get update
>     sudo apt-get install r-base
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius

Marius,

That should work.  Not sure what you mean by "patched" however.  Is 
there something in particular you are hoping to get from the CRAN 
version of R for Ubuntu?

Michael

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