Try this: Go to your favorite CRAN mirror. Click on "R Binaries" then "linux" then "ubuntu" and send the link with directions to install current ubuntu binaries to your IS people.
Which, you'll note, is exactly what Jeff Newmiller suggested. Sarah On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Scott Raynaud <scott.rayn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My IS people insist that the latest version of R avaialble via apt-get is > 2.13.1. Anything later they claim will have to be compiled. True? > Will I have to compile every time I update R? Seems like a lot of work. > Surely there's a way around it. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jeff Newmiller <jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> > To: Scott Raynaud <scott.rayn...@yahoo.com>; "r-help@r-project.org" > <r-help@r-project.org> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:34 PM > Subject: Re: [R] Apt-get > > Google is really useful for questions like this. > > http://cran.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. > > Scott Raynaud <scott.rayn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>I have a box set up with Kubuntu as the OS. I didn't perform >>the R install but was told the version of R available via the >>apt-get command was 2.13.1. Is there any way to get 2.14.0 >>in that same manner? -- Sarah Goslee http://www.functionaldiversity.org ______________________________________________ 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.
