Thanks - that worked perfectly. I really appreciate the help and the pointer to your blog.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Michael Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 09/20/2012 04:33 PM, Michael Conklin wrote: > >> Per the suggestion of this list when I posted on the r-help list, I have >> gone to cran, linux downloads and read the read me file to try and install >> the binary for R 2.15.1 on my ubuntu AMD64 machine. I added to my >> sources.list the deb http:\\cran.wustl.edu\bin\**linux\ubuntu precise >> main . >> Then I ran sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install r-base. The >> system >> promptly installs R 2.14.1 . I have tried this with 2 different cran >> mirrors with the same results. Any suggestions would be greatly >> appreciated. I have very little experience with ubuntu or linux although I >> feel I am being forced to learn quite a bit very quickly, so specific >> suggestions are more helpful than generic ones. >> >> Michael Conklin >> >> > Michael, > > I think the easiest way to get the current R packages is to use the PPA > that supplies CRAN. To enable that, at a command line enter > > sudo apt-add-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter > > That will add the correct information into your apt sources list. > > More infomration can be found out my Ubuntu and R blog, > http://tiny.cc/ubunturblog. > > Michael > > >> ______________________________**_________________ >> R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-sig-debian<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian> >> >> > -- > Dr. Michael A. Rutter > School of Science > Penn State Erie, The Behrend College > 4205 College Drive > Erie, PA 16563 > http://math.bd.psu.edu/**faculty/rutter<http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter> > [email protected] > > ______________________________**_________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-sig-debian<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian> > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
