On 17 September 2012 at 16:13, Hugh Patience wrote: | Hi there, | following the instructions shown here: | http://www.r-bloggers.com/ec2-micro-instance-of-rstudio/ | | I used | | sudo apt-get install r-baseto insall R on an Amazon EC2 server, but when I do that I get an old cersion of R | | > R.version.string | [1] "R version 2.12.1 (2010-12-16)" | | Do you know how I can change this command so that it installs the latest version?Also are the ubuntu version numbers exactly equivalent to their windows version numbers? | In particular I want to ensure the package "parallel" is installed.
Please read the README in the bin/linux/ubuntu/ directory on any CRAN mirror, eg http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu and follow the instructions. By adding a new and current source of R packages, provided by CRAN, you get the current version of R -- ie 2.15.1 Dirk -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
