[R] Instructions for upgrading R on ubuntu

[Jeff Newmiller]

John, the instructions at CRAN have worked for me.
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John Sorkin <JSorkin at grecc.umaryland.edu> wrote:
>Jeff, Andrew,
>When you come up with a solution to the upgrade problem, please send it
>to me. I have a similiar problem under Mint, which is an Unbuntu fork.
>Thank you,
>John
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>>>> Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> 9/15/2013 1:11 PM >>>
>"Apparently"? How is this apparent? I don't see this mentioned at CRAN
>[1]. Why would you reference some perhaps well-intentioned but possibly
>untrustworthy person's website when you could be downloading from a
>vetted distribution source?
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>[1] http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/
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>Andrew Crane-Droesch <andrewcd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I am trying to upgrade to R 3.0.1, and I am working on ubuntu. 
>>Apparently, the new version is available in the following ppa: 
>>https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u.  I have added this ppa
>
>>to my software sources.
>>
>>I then run the typical sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get
>>dist-upgrade, 
>>and R fails to upgrade from 2.15.2 to 3.0.1.  I then manually try to 
>>sudo apt-get install r-base-dev, which does not recognize that a new 
>>version is available from the newly-installed ppa.
>>
>>I have tried using the GUI Software Center as well -- it lists R as 
>>installed, and makes no mention of the new version.
>>
>>Could someone be so kind as to post step-by-step instructions for 
>>actually installing R 3.0.1?  Given issues with graphics in R2.15.2
>>with 
>>Ubuntu 13.04, I am sure that this will be useful to people besides me.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Andrew
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