Hey Mat

sudo R works!

Also I modified the etc/sources.list to include a CRAN destination instead
of the debian instances.



thanks :))

only thing- i had to practically re install all packages from scratch.

is there any way to avoid re-installing all packages if you are upgrading to
a new R version in Ubuntu Linux

Best

Ajay
Websites-
http://decisionstats.com






On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:47 PM, mat <matthieu.stigler@gmail.com> wrote:

> Ajay
>
> Please avoid cross-posting on two lists. Continue this thread only on
> thes-ig-debian list.
>
> You can't update packages from within R? Did you try to start R with sudo
> permissions?:
> sudo R
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Mat
>
> Le 22. 01. 11 07:50, Ajay Ohri a écrit :
>
>> Dear List
>>
>> I use synaptic to download R on my Ubuntu 10.10. It seems latest version
>> of
>> R on Ubuntu is 2.11.1
>>
>> Even when I use debian.cran.r-project.org to update my packages the
>> problem
>> remains (latest versions on CRAN are almost always 2 updates ahead of
>> Debian
>> packages) This is also true for a lot of other packages as well
>>
>> My specific problem is while I can use sudo apt-get to update packages
>> from
>> Debian repository I get a permission denied when I am trying to update
>> from
>> CRAN from within R. I am a Linux newbie
>>
>> Please help
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ajay
>>
>> Websites-
>> http://decisionstats.com
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