On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:24 PM, stephen's mailinglist account <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Iain Gallagher > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Steve >> >> Have you tried: >> >> apt-cache search gfortran >> >> in a terminal window. >> >> Then >> >> sudo apt-get install theRelevantPackage >> >> I think you also need the Universe repos enabled. >> >> HTH >> >> Iain >> >> --- On Tue, 8/12/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> >> > Subject: [R] Upgrading To 2.10 from 2.6.2 >> > To: [email protected] >> > Date: Tuesday, 8 December, 2009, 13:38 >> > >> > Hello >> > >> > I have a Linux machine (Ubuntu 8.04 hardy, Gcc version >> > 4.2.4 >> > (i486-linux-gnu) currently running R 2.6.2. I'd like to >> > upgrade to 2.10. >> > >> > First Question): What is the appropriate way to >> > remove the old version of >> > R? >> > >> > >> > Part 2. >> > After downloading r-base_2.10.0.orig.tar.gz and >> > opening the archive. I >> > ran the ./configure routine. >> > >> > It failed claiming that it could not find the F77 >> > compiler. >> > >> Apologies posted with some unintended HTML format which was scrubbed on list
repost Why not add the CRAN repository to your sources list in Ubuntu and let your package manager (synaptic?/apt?) sort it out for you. Version 2.10 is available here for Hardy. It is a good way to keep your version of R up to date without worrying about what is happening with the rest of your machine, which may be quite comfortably stable, and it saves the hassle of you having to compile it yourself see pages at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ You will need to add a line similar to the one below to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://<my.favorite.cran.mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu hardy/ you could edit the file directly or do it via synaptic or Gnome menu (system/admin) has an entry for software sources. Stephen ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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.
