Message-ID: <87haqq3pqg.fsf@sklar.v.cablecom.net>
Date: 2012-09-22T17:57:11Z
From: Marius Hofert
Subject: How to upgrade from 2.15.1 to 2.15.1 patched?
In-Reply-To: <505DF9CC.8050603@psu.edu> (Michael Rutter's message of "Sat, 22 Sep 2012 13:47:56 -0400")
Michael Rutter <mar36 at psu.edu> writes:
> On 09/22/2012 12:54 PM, Marius Hofert wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to upgrade R-2.15.1 to R-2.15.1 patched (under Ubuntu 12.04). What's
>> the recommended way to do so?
>>
>> I did the following steps for installing R under Ubuntu 12.04 (as far as I
>> remember, Dirk Eddelbuettel recommended this and helped me on several occasions
>> with the installation):
>>
>> 1) sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list
>> 2) add:
>> deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
>> 3) do:
>> gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key E084DAB9
>> gpg -a --export E084DAB9 | sudo apt-key add -
>> 4) do:
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get install r-base
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marius
>
> Marius,
>
> That should work. Not sure what you mean by "patched" however. Is there
> something in particular you are hoping to get from the CRAN version of R for
> Ubuntu?
>
> Michael
Dear Michael,
thanks for helping. The above steps only work for installing R-2.15.1 (from
June), but how can I obtain the latest patched version? In the patched version,
a couple of bugs were fixed, one of which affects me, that's why I would like to
install the patched version. I used to install R from source, but I remember
that Dirk did not recommend this (I had some troubles while doing so), so I was
hoping that there is an "easy" (like the above) way to install the patched
version.
Cheers,
Marius