[R] How to install R 2.5 with Synaptic in Ubuntu?

[Grimbough]

Hi,
I can't get this approach to work.  When I first added the repsitory line to
/etc/apt/sources.list synaptic complained that it was a malformed line.  I
fixed this
by adding "main" to end of the entry making it:

 deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty main

However after this it still complains that it can't find "packages.gz"

It appears to be looking in 
http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu/distsfeisty
which isn't the directory structure of the cran repository, but 
I can see anyway to modify this behaviour.  Every other Ubuntu repositoy
I have looked at contains the dists directory.

Any suggestions for modifying this behaviour are gratefully recieved.
Many thanks

Mike Smith


"Stefan Große" wrote:
> 
>>I'm using Ubuntu dapper, which only have R of Version 2.2.1.
> 
>>Would anybody tell me how to install the latest version of R with 
> 
> 
> from the CRAN Ubuntu readme- works for synaptic as well:
> 
> * UBUNTU
> 
> R packages for Ubuntu on i386 are available. The plans are to support at
> least the latest Ubuntu release and the latest LTS release. Currently
> (April 2007), these are Feisty Fawn (7.04) and Dapper Drake (6.06),
> respectively. Since Feisty was released very shortly before R 2.5.0,
> binary packages *for this release of R* are also available for Edgy
> Eft (6.10).
> 
> To obtain the latest R packages, add an entry like
> 
>   deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu feisty/
> 
> or
> 
>   deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu edgy/
> 
> or
> 
>   deb http://my.favorite.cran.mirror/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/
> 
> in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. See 
> http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
> for the list of CRAN mirrors. To install the complete R system, use
> 
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get install r-base
> 
> Users who need to compile packages should also install the r-base-dev
> package:
> 
>   sudo apt-get install r-base-dev
> 
> The R packages for Ubuntu should otherwise behave like the Debian ones.
> For
> more information, see the README file in
> 
>   http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/debian/
> 
> * SECURE APT
> 
> The Ubuntu archives on CRAN are signed with the key of "Vincent Goulet
> <vincent.goulet at act.ulaval.ca>" with key ID E2A11821. You can fetch
> this with
> 
>   gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key E2A11821
> 
> and then you feed the key to apt-key with
> 
>   gpg -a --export E2A11821 | sudo apt-key add -
> 
> Some people have reported difficulties using this approach. The issue
> was usually related to a firewall blocking port 11371. An alternative
> approach is to search for the key at http://keyserver.noreply.org/ and
> copy the key to a plain text file, say key.txt. Then, feed the key to
> apt-key with
> 
>   sudo apt-key add key.txt
> 
> 
> * ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
> 
> The Debian R packages are maintained by Dirk Eddelbuettel and Doug Bates.
> The Ubuntu packages are compiled for i386 by Vincent Goulet.
> 
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