I suggest you try another CRAN mirror. I use cran.us.r-project.org and
don't have any problems.  As that mirror is the site of the Bioconductor
project, they are very good about keeping the mirror up to date.


On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Chris Sims <sims@princeton.edu> wrote:

> Since upgrading to quantal, I find that synaptic and apt-get cannot read
> the sources.list file if it includes the previously standard line
>
> deb http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/**CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/<http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu/>quantal
>
> This line makes apt-get or synaptic give an error message identifying this
> line as having a syntax error.
>
> If "multiverse" is added at the end of the line, the line is parsed, but
> then apt-get or synaptic looks for non-existent directories on the server.
>
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