Linux etc. » GnuPG http://promberger.info/linux my outsourced memory for your perusal Thu, 08 Sep 2011 11:06:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Installing and updating R with aptitude http://promberger.info/linux/2007/09/04/installing-and-updating-r-with-aptitude/ http://promberger.info/linux/2007/09/04/installing-and-updating-r-with-aptitude/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:51:13 +0000 Marianne http://www.promberger.info/linux/2007/09/04/installing-and-updating-r-with-aptitude/ > [...]]]> If you like, choose your favourite R mirror from the CRAN mirror list and substitute it for the http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/ below. The following is for Ubuntu Dapper. If you are using a different distro, replace “dapper” with the correct codename for that distro before you add it to sources.list.

sudo -s
echo "deb http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu  dapper/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
exit
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821
gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo aptitude update

Then, if you don’t have R yet:

sudo aptitude install r-base

If you have it, you may be able to get the latest update with 

sudo aptitude upgrade

or, r-base may show up along with other R stuff under “The following packages have been kept back”. In that case:

sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

Read up on the difference between upgrade and dist-upgrade ]]> http://promberger.info/linux/2007/09/04/installing-and-updating-r-with-aptitude/feed/ 0