At 18:23 05/06/2010, Michael Friendly wrote:
For what it's worth, I found the instructions for upgrading R on
debian linux sufficiently
confusing, that I wrote down in a sort of script the steps I carried
out, as a record for future reference.
The next time, I'll just copy/paste selections of lines to a terminal window.
Maybe someone else will find this useful or suggest a way to streamline it.
Michael,
See comment inline below
-MIchael
###################################
# append lenny-cran to sources.list
# see: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ for details
## NB: better to choose a local CRAN mirror
cd /etc/apt/
echo 'deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/' >>
sources.list
# see: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/ for details
###################################
# updating R to the current release
sudo
aptitude update
# check policy: make sure you see the newer version
apt-cache policy r-base
aptitude install r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-recommended
aptitude install r-base-html
###################################
# updating r-cran packages [
# NB: (a) I'm not certain of the difference between installing via
# debian packages, vs. update.packages
I think an explanation of this has recently been added to the welcome
page you see after R binaries, linux, debian
# (b) to install selectively via apt, it is easier to use a gui tool
# like synaptic than by specifying debian packages on the command line
# updating R packages: CRAN often has newer than debian r-cran builds
R
#update.packages(lib.loc="/usr/local/lib/R/site-packages")
update.packages()
# install other non r-cran packages from CRAN
nondeb <- c("heplots", "candisc", "vcdExtra")
install.packages(nondeb)
# see what versions are installed where
pkgs <- installed.packages()
pkgs[,1:3]
Douglas Bates wrote:
As both you and Dirk have made considerable contributions to the R
project, although in different contexts, I will try to smooth out some
of the wrinkles in the communication. The thing to realize is that
the Debian packages for R on the Debian archives are updated only when
a new release of Debian is prepared, and that is infrequent. On the
other hand the Debian packages for R on the CRAN archives are updated
frequently. It is not uncommon to have them updated within a few
hours of a new release of R.
This is why many respondents have suggested something like the explanation at
http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian
which says, in effect, that you should add the line
deb http://cran.uk.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian lenny-cran/
to your sources.list file.
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Ted Harding
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 05-Jun-10 15:03:55, Ted Harding wrote:
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.
I meant "Dirk".
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