On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 22 September 2012 at 18:54, 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 > > We generally follow R Core releases, and the packaged versions are the actual > releases. > > In other words, there are no .deb packages I am aware of that contain patch > releases.
I've been in the same pickle (e.g., a patched bug is affecting my work) a very few times. I don't mind building R-patched from source every once and a while. If you are able to install source packages you probably won't need much more (if any) work to build R from scratch, and it is satisfying to know that you really can "use the source"(TM) when the need arises. The hard work of figuring out the appropriate compilers and options has already been done and is recorded in the Makeconf files, and can be copied into a "config.site" file. You can install the patched version somewhere that won't affect the debian packaged version (e.g., /opt/R-project/) and install (current versions of) libraries you are using. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
