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Updated R on Debian testing machine...

5 messages · Petar Milin, stephen sefick, Dirk Eddelbuettel +1 more

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I just compile mine from scratch.  Debian ppc ibook G4.  I would be
interested how to do this also, but the compiling is not all that
difficult.  If you need help send me an email.

Stephen Sefick
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Petar Milin <pmilin at ff.uns.ac.rs> wrote:

  
    
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On 18 March 2009 at 17:44, Petar Milin wrote:
| I recently switched to Debian testing OS and explanation at the:
| http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
| is a little bit fuzzy. Can anyone give step-by-step how-to have updated
| R on Debian testing and/or unstable.

Please consider subscribing to the r-sig-debian list and asking there.

In a nutshell:

i)   add one line to /etc/apt/sources.list
ii)  run 'sudo apt-get update'
iii) run 'sudo apt-get install r-base'

and you have a shiny new R 2.8.1 for Debian testing. [ Which right now you
could also take from Debian unstable but that isn't always possible. ]

The CRAN service is a good one, thanks to Vincent, Michael (for Ubuntu) and
Johannes for Debian to keep it running smoothly.

Dirk
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Thanks! However, that is my point: it is a bit vague what line to put
in /etc/apt/source.list. And I cannot see anything in Debian section for
Sid.
Also, thanks for the advice on r-sig-debian.

Best,
PM
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 20:42 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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Hi Petar,

I use Debian Lenny, these are the lines I added to my sources.list:

# Add R-repository
deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch-cran/
deb-src http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch-cran/

cheers,
Paul
Petar Milin wrote: