Dirk, Below is my original mail, a question i sent yesterday. I wanted to upgrade R but for some reason this didn't work.Your response to this e-mail was: try the rstudio mirror or some other. This didn't work, meaning i couldn't upgrade R. As you probably didn't have this first question in your mail history, it didn't make sense. Sorry for this. Finally, i could upgrade R with this line:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter Best,Martin
Hi, I'm having some issues upgrading R. I'm using ubuntu linux 13.10, saucy and would like to upgrade R to the new version.I'm currently using 3.0.1 I've been following the instructions given in:1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10476713/how-to-upgrade-r-in-ubuntuand2. http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ Here is exactly what i did, following mostly the stackoverflow description: 1) Added the cran mirror link to the sources list(I've actually tryed with 3 different mirrors just in case)sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.listdeb http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/ saucy/ 2) Getting the key step gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add - 3) Run the updates/upgradessudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade After a large list of succesful updates i get the following result in the terminal: W: Failed to fetch http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/saucy/InRelease W: Failed to fetch http://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu/saucy/Release.gpg Cannot initiate the connection to cran.cnr.berkeley.edu:80 (2607:f140:0:8000::201). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2607:f140:0:8000::201 80] W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... Done0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. I've done this a few times. At this point there are no more updates and the R error is isolated. Is there a solution to this or should i just re-install R. Thanks for your time, Martin > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:54:56 -0500 > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu 13.10 - not able to upgrade R > From: [email protected] > > > On 18 April 2014 at 16:39, Martin Bel wrote: > | I've tried a few different mirrors before, including the rstudio one. > | To be sure i've tried again with the one you provided, but didn't work. > > We can't really help you at the granularity of "didn't work": What did you > try? How did it fail? What were the errors? > > Maybe read some of the HOWTOs on the web about 'how to ask a good question' > as eg this classic variant: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > | I've found this other method, that worked. I guess it's not the official > one, > | right? > | > | > | sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter > > Yes that is a different repository from the CRAN repository. They are related > though. > > I honestly do not know what your question is. Thousands of people _use_ the > CRAN Ubuntu repo happily. Maybe you just need to re-read the README... > > Good luck, Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
