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cannot upgrade to R 2.9.1 in Ubuntu

3 messages · Luis Ridao Cruz, Dirk Eddelbuettel

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Luis Ridao Cruz
# 
R-SIG-Debian help,

At the moment the R version installed on my machine is 2.8.1. (Ubuntu 9.04)
I wish to upgrade to  R 2.9.1.

I did:
$ sudo apt-get upgrade

but R is not upgraded although the "sources.list" file is updated with:

deb http://cran.ii.uib.no/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/

When I run from the terminal I still get:

$ R
R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

  Natural language support but running in an English locale
........
........


Thanks in advance
Dirk Eddelbuettel
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On 10 August 2009 at 11:06, Luis Ridao Cruz wrote:
| R-SIG-Debian help,
| 
| At the moment the R version installed on my machine is 2.8.1. (Ubuntu 9.04)
| I wish to upgrade to  R 2.9.1.
| 
| I did:
| $ sudo apt-get upgrade

Did you also do 

     $ sudo apt-get update

to get current meta-information? Also do

     $ apt-cache policy r-base

which should show something like this

     $ apt-cache policy r-base
     r-base:
       Installed: (none)
       Candidate: 2.9.1-2jaunty
       Version table:
          2.9.1-2jaunty 0
             500 http://cran.us.r-project.org jaunty/ Packages
          2.8.1-1 0
             500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages

Hoep this helps,  Dirk

| but R is not upgraded although the "sources.list" file is updated with:
| 
| deb http://cran.ii.uib.no/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/
| 
| When I run from the terminal I still get:
| 
| $ R
| R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
| Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| ISBN 3-900051-07-0
| 
| R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
| Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
| 
|   Natural language support but running in an English locale
| ........
| ........
| 
| 
| Thanks in advance
| 
| _______________________________________________
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| R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
| https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
Dirk Eddelbuettel
#
On 10 August 2009 at 11:06, Luis Ridao Cruz wrote:
| R-SIG-Debian help,
| 
| At the moment the R version installed on my machine is 2.8.1. (Ubuntu 9.04)
| I wish to upgrade to  R 2.9.1.
| 
| I did:
| $ sudo apt-get upgrade

Just to bring closure here -- further off-list mail lead to 

     $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

which upgraded R to 2.9.1 as expected.

Dirk

| but R is not upgraded although the "sources.list" file is updated with:
| 
| deb http://cran.ii.uib.no/bin/linux/ubuntu jaunty/
| 
| When I run from the terminal I still get:
| 
| $ R
| R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22)
| Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
| ISBN 3-900051-07-0
| 
| R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
| You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
| Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.
| 
|   Natural language support but running in an English locale
| ........
| ........
| 
| 
| Thanks in advance
| 
| _______________________________________________
| R-SIG-Debian mailing list
| R-SIG-Debian at r-project.org
| https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian