The PPA for latest Ubuntu packages doesn't seem to be in the sources list. https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/rrutter
Also see the CRAN page (I've used the probability.ca mirror) http://probability.ca/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/ Best, JN On 08/01/2012 02:02 AM, Chris Evans wrote: > The specific message is: > "Warning: package 'spatial' in library '/usr/lib/R/library' will not be > updated" > > and the number of libraries about which that's the complaint is now > increasingly almost > daily so clearly something is wrong. > > I'm working on a laptop on which I do the recommended Ubuntu updates daily. > I done a > standard installation of R 2.15.1 using synaptic with: > > deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/ > deb-src http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/ > > in /etc/apt/sources.list and I added most of the optional packages that are > packaged at > that source. > > I have been updating going into R through "sudo R" in my home directory and > then using > "update.packages(instlib=.libPaths()[1],ask=FALSE)" > > However, that gets these complaints about not updating. I get the same > message if I use: > "update.packages(ask=FALSE)" > > I get the same if I use "su" rather than sudo and if I update as an ordinary > user and if I > point to a different mirror repository (I have been using Switzerland as > Bristol seemed to > be lagging behind Switzerland a lot). > > I was doing to that without a personal library but tried updating as an > ordinary user and > created a personal library as prompted but that still gets the same but that > means that my > .libPaths() is now: > >> .libPaths() > [1] "/home/chris/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15" > [2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" > [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" > [4] "/usr/lib/R/library" > > I think I've read and understood umpteen questions about the different ways > of updating > libraries on this list. I would like to update to the latest library > versions regularly > (as 2.15.1 for Windoze in a VM box on this machine does fine). Clearly I > don't understand > something and am doing something wrong. Please can someone enlighten me? > > Thanks in advance, > > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
