-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 24/09/12 16:23, Paul Johnson wrote: > Gosh, I hope I'm not out of date on this. I think there is no "deb" packaged > version of > R-patched. The patched version comes out very often, and they don't intend it > to go into the > packaging based distributions. It is still in testing, you know.
I also don't think that there is a deb available, but I have self-compile R along with deb R and never had problems - you don't have to install R to run it, just do the usual: ./configure make but NOT make install Cheers, Rainer > > Here is what you should do to make a package. I have done this on Debian, it > will work. > Basically, you want to get the Debian packaging materials, then replace the R > version with the > patched tarball, then build. If you have never built a deb package before, > this is a learning & > testing process for you, but basically, get the R packaging source: > > apt-get source r-base > > Second, get the R-patched tarball, then Third, Copy the debian folder inside > the source folder > to the R-patched folder. Then you may have to fiddle the debian/changelog > file to make it match > the source. Then use the package builder. > > That's an involved process. I should probably have written "if you have not > built a package > before, quit now and wait for an official R release." > > pj > > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Marius Hofert <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> Michael Rutter <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> On 09/22/2012 12:54 PM, Marius Hofert wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I would like to upgrade R-2.15.1 to R-2.15.1 patched (under Ubuntu 12.04). >>>> What's the >>>> recommended way to do so? >>>> >>>> I did the following steps for installing R under Ubuntu 12.04 (as far as I >>>> remember, Dirk >>>> Eddelbuettel recommended this and helped me on several occasions with the >>>> installation): >>>> >>>> 1) sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list 2) add: deb >>>> http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu >>>> precise/ 3) do: gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9 >>>> gpg -a --export >>>> E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add - 4) do: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get >>>> install r-base >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Marius >>> >>> Marius, >>> >>> That should work. Not sure what you mean by "patched" however. Is there >>> something in >>> particular you are hoping to get from the CRAN version of R for Ubuntu? >>> >>> Michael >> >> Dear Michael, >> >> thanks for helping. The above steps only work for installing R-2.15.1 (from >> June), but how >> can I obtain the latest patched version? In the patched version, a couple of >> bugs were fixed, >> one of which affects me, that's why I would like to install the patched >> version. I used to >> install R from source, but I remember that Dirk did not recommend this (I >> had some troubles >> while doing so), so I was hoping that there is an "easy" (like the above) >> way to install the >> patched version. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Marius >> >> _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list >> [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlBgdl8ACgkQoYgNqgF2egokqgCeNxSzFkvkBy0mx9yyTr/+dDwi DrAAn0WJFCQHpb9Bg0oWtC2l13AyjCCy =3aJ7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
