Jeff, Andrew, When you come up with a solution to the upgrade problem, please send it to me. I have a similiar problem under Mint, which is an Unbuntu fork. Thank you, John
John David Sorkin M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Medicine Chief, Biostatistics and Informatics University of Maryland School of Medicine Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine Baltimore VA Medical Center 10 North Greene Street GRECC (BT/18/GR) Baltimore, MD 21201-1524 (Phone) 410-605-7119 (Fax) 410-605-7913 (Please call phone number above prior to faxing) >>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> 9/15/2013 1:11 PM >>> "Apparently"? How is this apparent? I don't see this mentioned at CRAN [1]. Why would you reference some perhaps well-intentioned but possibly untrustworthy person's website when you could be downloading from a vetted distribution source? [1] http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. Andrew Crane-Droesch <andre...@gmail.com> wrote: >I am trying to upgrade to R 3.0.1, and I am working on ubuntu. >Apparently, the new version is available in the following ppa: >https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u. I have added this ppa >to my software sources. > >I then run the typical sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get >dist-upgrade, >and R fails to upgrade from 2.15.2 to 3.0.1. I then manually try to >sudo apt-get install r-base-dev, which does not recognize that a new >version is available from the newly-installed ppa. > >I have tried using the GUI Software Center as well -- it lists R as >installed, and makes no mention of the new version. > >Could someone be so kind as to post step-by-step instructions for >actually installing R 3.0.1? Given issues with graphics in R2.15.2 >with >Ubuntu 13.04, I am sure that this will be useful to people besides me. > >Thanks, >Andrew > >______________________________________________ >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. Confidentiality Statement: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message.
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