Ajay, you may try to run R as root while updating packages. Some packages insist to install in directories writeable only by root.
On Saturday 22 January 2011 07:50:10 Ajay Ohri wrote: > 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
