I am trying to install R programming language and able to install rbase using this code without adding repository in *source.list* sudo apt-get install r-base After that i tried to upgrade it using this code sudo add-apt-repository ?deb http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/? sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade But when i tried the first code sudo add-apt-repository ?deb http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/? its giving this error Error: need a single repository as argument -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Cant-upgrade-R-in-ubuntu-14-04-tp4710885.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Cant upgrade R in ubuntu 14.04
2 messages · boredstoog, Peter Dalgaard
That is an Ubuntu issue, not an R one. - Peter D.
On 08 Aug 2015, at 06:31 , boredstoog via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> wrote: I am trying to install R programming language and able to install rbase using this code without adding repository in *source.list* sudo apt-get install r-base After that i tried to upgrade it using this code sudo add-apt-repository ?deb http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/? sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade But when i tried the first code sudo add-apt-repository ?deb http://star-www.st-andrews.ac.uk/cran/bin/linux/ubuntu/trusty/? its giving this error Error: need a single repository as argument -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Cant-upgrade-R-in-ubuntu-14-04-tp4710885.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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