Ted,

I think you are not the only one that is annoyed by the need for translating 
the line

	deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/debian lenny/

into something that works. However, this helps reducing the load on
the main CRAN server in Vienna, and network load in general. I think this is 
worth the effort, except if the CRAN administrators would tell me otherwise. I 
copied them in in case they would like to comment on this.

I hope that with the help of Dirk and others you now have a working R 2.11.1 
on your system. Thanks for sharing information about the trouble you have had 
- I will try to use this information to improve the README in the Debian 
section of CRAN:

Regarding the timeout of the keyserver, at least I and Vincent Goulet have had 
problems with timeouts as well, so I added the alternative that Dirk 
suggested.

I just re-read what we now have in the README on SECURE APT. I believe Dirk is 
right that you missed to make the key known to the apt system at first, and it 
seems the README was not clear enough here. I just rewrote this part and it is 
on the way to CRAN.

Kind regards,

Johannes
Current maintainer of R backports for Debian stable  on CRAN

Am Samstag, 5. Juni 2010, um 15:23:10 schrieb Ted Harding:
> Greetings!
> I would be very grateful if someone could supply a suitable
> line to enter into /etc/apt/sources.list for the benefit of
> a complete dummy user (i.e. me -- I do not want to have to
> do any interpretation, guesswork, reading of docs, etc.;
> I want to just copy it in).
> 
> The machine in question is an Intel laptop, wuth Debian Lenny
> (according to the Debian website the current stable version
> as of 12 Feb 2010). The current contents of /etc/apt/sources.list
> are:
> =======
> deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
> 
> deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
> deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
> 
> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
> =======
> 
> I had not been using this machine for running R, until I tried it
> yesterday and was shocked to find that the R version installed is
> 
>   R 2.7.1 (2008-06-23)
> 
> compared with the version I have on my regular machine, which is
> R 2.11.0 (2010-04-22). Then I was shocked, on visiting the Debian
> Lenny webpage, to find that the currently held version of R is
> the same as the above: "2.7.1-1+lenny" for all the basic R packages.
> No wonder I have not been getting updates!
> 
> I am located in the UK.
> 
> What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list ? (Maybe more than one
> line, if that would be relevant to installing/updating a variety
> of R packages).
> 
> With thanks,
> Ted.
> 
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