Hi, I can't get this approach to work. When I first added the repsitory line to /etc/apt/sources.list synaptic complained that it was a malformed line. I fixed this by adding "main" to end of the entry making it:
deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main However after this it still complains that it can't find "packages.gz" It appears to be looking in http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu/distsfeisty which isn't the directory structure of the cran repository, but I can see anyway to modify this behaviour. Every other Ubuntu repositoy I have looked at contains the dists directory. Any suggestions for modifying this behaviour are gratefully recieved. Many thanks Mike Smith "Stefan Große" wrote: > >>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. > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-install-R-2.5-with-Synaptic-in-Ubuntu--tf3998481.html#a11426235 Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ [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.
