[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu 13.10 - not able to upgrade R

[Alex Mandel]

Open an R session and run update.packages()
It will pull down and recompile whatever packages you have installed.

Thanks,
Alex

On 04/20/2014 02:50 PM, claude krzisch wrote:
> Hi
> I work with Ubuntu (now trusty) and I have a problem related, I presume,
> to the upgrade of R : I am unable to download some packages I relied
> heavily on previously as "date","survival" ... I tried to upgrade my
> packages without any success always with the same message : the package
> has been compiled before R 3.0.3, please recompile it. It is the first
> time that I have this type of problem and I don't know how to respond to
> it. Must I download the source package and compile it ? And how may I do
> it ?
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 
> CK
> 
> 
> Le 18/04/2014 21:54, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
>> On 18 April 2014 at 16:39, Martin Bel wrote:
>> | I've tried a few different mirrors before, including the rstudio one.
>> | To be sure i've tried again with the one you provided, but didn't work.
>>
>> We can't really help you at the granularity of "didn't work": What did
>> you
>> try?  How did it fail? What were the errors?
>>
>> Maybe read some of the HOWTOs on the web about 'how to ask a good
>> question'
>> as eg this classic variant:
>> http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>>   | I've found this other method, that worked. I guess it's not the
>> official one,
>> | right?
>> |
>> |
>> | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter
>>
>> Yes that is a different repository from the CRAN repository. They are
>> related though.
>>
>> I honestly do not know what your question is.  Thousands of people
>> _use_ the
>> CRAN Ubuntu repo happily.  Maybe you just need to re-read the README...
>>
>> Good luck,  Dirk
>>
> 
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