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

[Michael Rutter]

On 11/07/2013 04:51 PM, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> 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

All the packages that you need are on the Ubuntu CRAN site (I believe), 
the trick is convincing Ubuntu to install the correct ones.  One 
solution would be to ge here:

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

Manually download the packages you need.  Look for dates around March 2, 
2013.  That is the was the day 2.15.3 was created for Ubuntu.  Once you 
have downloaded the packages, install them using "dpkg".

Michael

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