On 05-Jun-10 14:34:24, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Ted, > > On 5 June 2010 at 14:23, (Ted Harding) wrote: >| Greetings! >| I would be very grateful if someone could supply a suitable >| line to enter into /etc/apt/sources.list for the benefit of >| a complete dummy user (i.e. me -- I do not want to have to >| do any interpretation, guesswork, reading of docs, etc.; >| I want to just copy it in). >| >| The machine in question is an Intel laptop, wuth Debian Lenny >| (according to the Debian website the current stable version >| as of 12 Feb 2010). The current contents of /etc/apt/sources.list >| are: >| ======= >| deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free >| deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free >| >| deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free >| deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib >| non-free >| >| deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main >| deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main >| >| deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main >| ======= >| >| I had not been using this machine for running R, until I tried it >| yesterday and was shocked to find that the R version installed is >| >| R 2.7.1 (2008-06-23) >| >| compared with the version I have on my regular machine, which is >| R 2.11.0 (2010-04-22). Then I was shocked, on visiting the Debian >| Lenny webpage, to find that the currently held version of R is > > What part of "stable" is unclear? When you opt for "stable", you ask > Debian > not to change your packages. > > So remarking that it doesn't update your R package, or preferred > editor, or > whatever, is inconsistent with what _you_ have chosen. A _stable_ > selection > of packages. I am not a native speaker of English but stable seems to > imply > 'does not change' reasonably well. > > So I am puzzled why this is so hard to explain. > > Now, maybe you are complaining that Debian has too few releases which > is a > different matter and requires a bit more of a meta-discussion. Too > many, > Ubuntu is a reasonable compromise between stability and bi-annual > updates. I > use it myself, but I also use (and like) Debian testing. It depends. > > But by choosing Lenny you got what you asked for. Now, as you asked, > ... > >| the same as the above: "2.7.1-1+lenny" for all the basic R packages. >| No wonder I have not been getting updates! >| >| I am located in the UK. >| >| What should I put in /etc/apt/sources.list ? (Maybe more than one >| line, if that would be relevant to installing/updating a variety >| of R packages). > > It is all documented, and a Google search for 'debian lenny R package' > gets > me there as a first hit. See the bin/linux/debian/ directory of any > CRAN > mirror. > > There are occassional mistakes (as Michael Friendly recently noticed) > but the > page makes an earnest attempt at documenting this so I won't repeat it > here. > If you have suggestions to make it clearer, please let Johannes or us > know. > > This also gets discussed here regularly so you may find looking at the > list > archives beneficial. > > Good luck. > > -- > Regards, Dirk
Duncan, I am sorry but your reply is of no help at all. Goodbye. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[email protected]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 05-Jun-10 Time: 16:03:52 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
