Thanks - that worked perfectly. I really appreciate the help and the
pointer to your blog.

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Michael Rutter <mar36@psu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/20/2012 04:33 PM, Michael Conklin wrote:
>
>> Per the suggestion of this list when I posted on the r-help list, I have
>> gone to cran, linux downloads and read the read me file to try and install
>> the binary for R 2.15.1 on my ubuntu AMD64 machine.  I added to my
>> sources.list the deb http:\\cran.wustl.edu\bin\**linux\ubuntu precise
>> main  .
>> Then I ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install r-base.  The
>> system
>> promptly installs R 2.14.1 .  I have tried this with 2 different cran
>> mirrors with the same results.  Any suggestions would be greatly
>> appreciated. I have very little experience with ubuntu or linux although I
>> feel I am being forced to learn quite a bit very quickly, so specific
>> suggestions are more helpful than generic ones.
>>
>> Michael Conklin
>>
>>
> Michael,
>
> I think the easiest way to get the current R packages is to use the PPA
> that supplies CRAN.  To enable that, at a command line enter
>
>  sudo apt-add-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter
>
> That will add the correct information into your apt sources list.
>
> More infomration can be found out my Ubuntu and R blog,
> http://tiny.cc/ubunturblog.
>
> Michael
>
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