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

[Marius Hofert]

Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> writes:

> On 24 September 2012 at 17:03, Rainer M Krug wrote:
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> | On 24/09/12 16:23, Paul Johnson wrote:
> | > Gosh, I hope I'm not out of date on this.  I think there is no "deb" packaged version of
> | > R-patched. The patched version comes out very often, and they don't intend it to go into the
> | > packaging based distributions. It is still in testing, you know.
> | 
> | I also don't think that there is a deb available, but I have self-compile R along with deb R and
> | never had problems - you don't have to install R to run it, just do the usual:
> | 
> | ./configure
> | make
>
> You can do /much/ better than the default configure.  
>
> For local builds of eg R-devel (straight off SVN) I have a script which was
> posted here not so long ago, and Michael also posted it on his new-ish
> blog. You can trivially substitute R-patched for R-devel.
>
> Now, if someone __really__ wants or needs R-patched packaged, we could
> conceivably look into this (re-)using the launchpad infrastructure. I won't
> have time to drive this in the near future, and I presume Michael has more
> pressing issues too, but we are generally happy to help others.

Thanks a lot, this is a great list. I hope I have some more problems for this
list in the future :-)

The patch is indeed not too serious in my case, so I might stick with the 2.15.1 version
then, given that I'm not experienced with creating deb's (but I'll give it a try
just to see how far I can get). 

Concerning patched versions of R in general, as far as I know, R Core is going
towards a new system. Instead of having two new releases per year, they plan to
have one major release and then a (smaller) patch-release. Now at the moment,
it seems that there is no "single" patch release (yet). But if that will come at
some point in the future, it might be good to have a packaged version. I would
definitely upgrade. 

Thanks again to all.

Cheers,

Marius

>
> Dirk
>  
> | but NOT
> | make install
> | 
> | 
> | Cheers,
> | 
> | Rainer
> | 
> | > 
> | > Here is what you should do to make a package. I have done this on Debian, it will work.
> | > Basically, you want to get the Debian packaging materials, then replace the R version with the
> | > patched tarball, then build. If you have never built a deb package before, this is a learning &
> | > testing process for you, but basically, get the R packaging source:
> | > 
> | > apt-get source r-base
> | > 
> | > Second, get the R-patched tarball, then Third, Copy the debian folder inside the source folder
> | > to the R-patched folder. Then you may have to fiddle the debian/changelog file to make it match
> | > the source. Then use the package  builder.
> | > 
> | > That's an involved process. I should probably have written "if you have not built a package
> | > before, quit now and wait for an official R release."
> | > 
> | > pj
> | > 
> | > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Marius Hofert <marius.hofert at math.ethz.ch> wrote:
> | >> 
> | >> 
> | >> Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu> writes:
> | >> 
> | >>> 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
> | >> 
> | >> Dear Michael,
> | >> 
> | >> thanks for helping. The above steps only work for installing R-2.15.1 (from June), but how
> | >> can I obtain the latest patched version? In the patched version, a couple of bugs were fixed,
> | >> one of which affects me, that's why I would like to install the patched version. I used to
> | >> install R from source, but I remember that Dirk did not recommend this (I had some troubles
> | >> while doing so), so I was hoping that there is an "easy" (like the above) way to install the
> | >> patched version.
> | >> 
> | >> Cheers,
> | >> 
> | >> Marius
> | >> 
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