For Pete's sake, could you please stop spamming the r-devel list? We have a dedicated list r-sig-debian for questions related to R on Debian/Ubuntu. Please use it.
And as as far as I can tell, Peter already told you what's up: deb http://http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu oneiric/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not a valid url. Once you have told apt/dpkg about additional sources, the rest takes care of its own as higher package versions win: edd@max:~$ apt-cache policy r-base-core r-base-core: Installed: 2.15.1-1precise2 Candidate: 2.15.1-1precise2 Version table: *** 2.15.1-1precise2 0 500 http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.15.0-1precise0 0 500 http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ precise/ Packages 2.14.1-1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages edd@max:~$ Dirk, one of several volunteers making sure the above "just works" -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
