>I'm using Ubuntu dapper, which only have R of Version 2.2.1. >Would anybody tell me how to install the latest version of R with
from the CRAN Ubuntu readme- works for synaptic as well: * UBUNTU R packages for Ubuntu on i386 are available. The plans are to support at least the latest Ubuntu release and the latest LTS release. Currently (April 2007), these are Feisty Fawn (7.04) and Dapper Drake (6.06), respectively. Since Feisty was released very shortly before R 2.5.0, binary packages *for this release of R* are also available for Edgy Eft (6.10). To obtain the latest R packages, add an entry like deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/ or deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu edgy/ or deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. See http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html for the list of CRAN mirrors. To install the complete R system, use sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install r-base Users who need to compile packages should also install the r-base-dev package: sudo apt-get install r-base-dev The R packages for Ubuntu should otherwise behave like the Debian ones. For more information, see the README file in http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ * SECURE APT The Ubuntu archives on CRAN are signed with the key of "Vincent Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" with key ID E2A11821. You can fetch this with gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821 and then you feed the key to apt-key with gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add - Some people have reported difficulties using this approach. The issue was usually related to a firewall blocking port 11371. An alternative approach is to search for the key at http://keyserver.noreply.org/ and copy the key to a plain text file, say key.txt. Then, feed the key to apt-key with sudo apt-key add key.txt * ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The Debian R packages are maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Doug Bates. The Ubuntu packages are compiled for i386 by Vincent Goulet. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [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.
