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3 messages · Clint Harshaw, Andrej Kastrin, Chris Lawrence

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Clint Harshaw
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I've recently installed Ubuntu 5.10 on a desktop and need R installed, 
however, even after uncommenting the repos associated with universe, 
backports and multiverse, the packages available for Ubuntu are somewhat 
out of date:

clint at simba:~$ apt-cache policy r-base r-base-core
r-base:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 2.1.1-1
   Version table:
      2.1.1-1 0
         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages
r-base-core:
   Installed: (none)
   Candidate: 2.1.1-1
   Version table:
      2.1.1-1 0
         500 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/universe Packages

How should I edit my /etc/apt/sources.list so that I can proplery 
maintain a current version of R, and not break my system? I've searched 
the forums at Ubuntu, and there are several similar requests there, but 
no definitive answer that I found.

What are other Ubuntu users here doing to keep their version of R fresh?

Thanks,
Clint
Andrej Kastrin
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Clint Harshaw wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
Hi,

there is no up-to-date R package for Breezy. I have no problem with 
source installation; just follow the instructions and that's all. If you 
prefer package installation, try with checkinstall.

Cheers, Andrej

  
  


  


      

    

    

      
      

        


  

        

      Chris Lawrence
    

    

      
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On 2/16/06, Clint Harshaw <charshaw at presby.edu> wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
I suspect the 2.2.x packages from Debian testing and/or unstable would
run fine on breezy (I don't think there's been any libc6 changes that
would affect things); you could always rebuild from the Debianized
sources for Ubuntu if they don't.

You could use apt pins to make sure that only the R packages from
Debian are pulled in, if you want to use apt to keep it up to date
from Debian's archive.

Something like the following in /etc/apt/preferences should work:

Package: r-*
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: 500

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -1

Then add a line for the Debian mirror of your choice to
/etc/apt/sources.list, using either testing or unstable as your
release.


Chris