Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> writes: > On 24 September 2012 at 17:03, Rainer M Krug wrote: > | -----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 Gosh, I hope I'm not out of date on this.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 > > You can do /much/ better than the default configure. > > For local builds of eg R-devel (straight off SVN) I have a script which was > posted here not so long ago, and Michael also posted it on his new-ish > blog. You can trivially substitute R-patched for R-devel. > > Now, if someone __really__ wants or needs R-patched packaged, we could > conceivably look into this (re-)using the launchpad infrastructure. I won't > have time to drive this in the near future, and I presume Michael has more > pressing issues too, but we are generally happy to help others.
Thanks a lot, this is a great list. I hope I have some more problems for this list in the future :-) The patch is indeed not too serious in my case, so I might stick with the 2.15.1 version then, given that I'm not experienced with creating deb's (but I'll give it a try just to see how far I can get). Concerning patched versions of R in general, as far as I know, R Core is going towards a new system. Instead of having two new releases per year, they plan to have one major release and then a (smaller) patch-release. Now at the moment, it seems that there is no "single" patch release (yet). But if that will come at some point in the future, it might be good to have a packaged version. I would definitely upgrade. Thanks again to all. Cheers, Marius > > Dirk > > | 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 _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
