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Marcos
Asked: 2012-06-20 04:26:20 +0800 CST

Trouble updating/installing newer required R

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All other answers I find only end up pointing to instructions: http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

So interpreting that site, added line:

deb http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/bin/linux/ubuntu oneiric universe

to /etc/apt/sources.list and ran apt-get update.

(From experimentation I had to add the "universe" or "main" at the end to avoid parse error in the repositories list, preventing apt or synaptic from updating at all).

However the problem persists:

W: Failed to fetch http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/bin/linux/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/binary-i386/Packa‌​ges 404 Not Found

I enter that URL in a browser and clearly see that path is not there. However this is: http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/bin/linux/ubuntu/oneiric/ (under which the Packages file actually lies, etc.)

Tried other mirrors, same problem.

lsb_release -a

Ubuntu 11.10

The version of R available initially prevents me from installing updated packages, eg.:

> install.packages("PerformanceAnalytics")
Installing package(s) into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘PerformanceAnalytics’ is not available (for R version 2.13.1)

Where I am going wrong?

11.10

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    change the line in /etc/apt/sources.list to

       deb http://r.meteo.uni.wroc.pl/bin/linux/ubuntu oneiric/

    and retry

     apt-get update
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