Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

2007-07-04 Thread Grimbough
Hi, I can't get this approach to work. When I first added the repsitory line to /etc/apt/sources.list synaptic complained that it was a malformed line. I fixed this by adding main to end of the entry making it: deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main However after

Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Grosse
to end of the entry making it: deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main However after this it still complains that it can't find packages.gz Just a guess: have you replaced the my.favorite.cran.mirror by a mirror which is close to you? If you're in UK it would

Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

2007-07-04 Thread msmith
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion and I wish the solution was that obvious, but I have changed it to really point at my favourite mirror. Using your example Synaptic reports the following error when I try to update the repositories:

Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Grosse
msmith schrieb: Hi, Thanks for the suggestion and I wish the solution was that obvious, but I have changed it to really point at my favourite mirror. Using your example Synaptic reports the following error when I try to update the repositories:

Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

2007-07-04 Thread Stefan Grosse
Stefan Grosse schrieb: deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main Sorry, I copied a mistake there, it should be: deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/ Stefan -=-=- ... The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human

Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

2007-07-04 Thread Thomas Harte
mike, try installing directly using apt-get instead of Synaptic. in my /etc/apt/sources.list i added the line: deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/ dapper/ and then i did: bash$ sudo apt-get install r-base r-doc-info r-doc-pdf r-doc-html r-mathlib r-base-html

Re: [R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

2007-06-29 Thread Stefan Große
I'm using Ubuntu dapper, which only have R of Version 2.2.1. Would anybody tell me how to install the latest version of R with from the CRAN Ubuntu readme- works for synaptic as well: * UBUNTU R packages for Ubuntu on i386 are available. The plans are to support at least the latest Ubuntu