On 11/08/2013 12:17 AM, Michael Rutter wrote:
All the packages that you need are on the Ubuntu CRAN site (I
believe), the trick is convincing Ubuntu to install the correct ones.
One solution would be to ge here:
http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/precise/
Manually download the packages you need. Look for dates around March
2, 2013. That is the was the day 2.15.3 was created for Ubuntu. Once
you have downloaded the packages, install them using "dpkg".
Michael
Thanks a lot to everyone for the useful input. Indeed, CRAN/Ubuntu
indeed contains packages "old enough" to run on R 2.15. The desired
configuration can be achieved with aptitude and a modification in its
conflict resolution heuristics:
sudo aptitude install -R -y r-base-dev=2.15.3-1precise0precise1
r-base-core=2.15.3-1precise0precise1
r-recommended=2.15.3-1precise0precise1 -o
"Aptitude::ProblemResolver::Non-Default-Level=5000"
This works in principle, but needs more tweaking to be more robust,
especially w.r.t. apt-get update calls.
Cheers
Kirill
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