[R-sig-Debian] Can't install R 2.15 and r-recommended on Ubuntu

[Johannes Ranke]

On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:51:36PM +0100, Kirill Müller wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 06:15 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >It would be cleaner to just build yourself a one-off 2.15 deb package, wget
> >it onto the travis host and use it.
> I could as well host a PPA on LaunchPad. Could you point me at the
> scripts you use to build the official CRAN bits?

you can use the sources

deb-src http://<favorite-cran-mirror>/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/

together with these simple scripts:

http://kriemhild.uft.uni-bremen.de/viewvc/r-backports/build_r-base.sh?revision=83&view=markup

and 

http://kriemhild.uft.uni-bremen.de/viewvc/r-backports/build_others.sh?revision=92&view=markup

Johannes