Perhaps this is me missing something obvious, but I've also noticed that I'm still able to run R even though none of the r-base packages seem to be installed (i.e. nothing is returned by apt-show-versions | grep "r-base"). I'm not sure what to make of that, but thought it was worth noting.
Ben On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Ben Domingue <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Michael Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On 07/26/2010 04:48 PM, Ben Domingue wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> I am trying to upgrade to 2.11 from 2.10 in the hopes of gaining >>> TCL/TK capabilities (let's pretend for the moment that this should >>> work). I've added "deb http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu >>> lucid/" to /etc/apt/sources.list as described in the guide and have >>> run >>> apt-get update >>> apt-get install r-base r-base-dev >>> Things seem to work. When I look at the installed packages on my >>> machine, I see: >>> b...@bd-laptop:~$ apt-show-versions | grep "r-base" >>> r-base/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 >>> r-base-core/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 >>> r-base-dev/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 >>> But when I run R, I'm still running 2.10: >>> >>>> sessionInfo() >>> >>> R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) >>> x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu >>> >>> locale: >>> [1] C >>> >>> attached base packages: >>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base >>>> >>>> R.version >>> >>> _ >>> platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu >>> arch x86_64 >>> os linux-gnu >>> system x86_64, linux-gnu >>> status >>> major 2 >>> minor 10.1 >>> year 2009 >>> month 12 >>> day 14 >>> svn rev 50720 >>> language R >>> version.string R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) >>> >>> >>> What's going on? Sorry if this has been addressed before; I've been >>> unable to find it in the archives. >>> >>> Ben Domingue >> >> Ben, >> >> Not sure why you have: >> >>> r-base/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 >> >> You should have: >> >> r-base/lucid uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 >> >> I think the first thing to do is remove R and then re-install. >> >> sudo apt-get remove r-base r-base-dev >> sudo apt-get update >> sudo apt-get install r-base r-base-dev >> >> If that does not work, resend the what apt-show-versions and R.version >> return. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Michael >> >> -- >> Dr. Michael A. Rutter >> School of Science >> Penn State Erie, The Behrend College >> Station Road >> Erie, PA 16563 >> http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter >> > > Thanks Michael. I did what you suggested, but I still have > b...@bd-laptop:~$ apt-show-versions | grep "r-base" > r-base/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 > r-base-core/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 > r-base-dev/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 > r-base-html/unknown uptodate 2.11.1-2lucid0 > > The only thing I can think is that it may be related to the mirror. > The line in my sources.list reads: > deb http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu lucid/ > which seems right, but perhaps I'm missing something. I'm not > bothering with the key, so perhaps that is part of the problem... > Here is the R.version: >> R.version > _ > platform x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu > arch x86_64 > os linux-gnu > system x86_64, linux-gnu > status > major 2 > minor 10.1 > year 2009 > month 12 > day 14 > svn rev 50720 > language R > version.string R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
