As far as I can see those instructions are not all that helpful. The answer below, from R-sig-Debian worked very nicely for me a little over a month ago.
> -----Original Message----- > From: marutter....@gmail.com > Sent: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:56:16 -0400 > To: jrkrid...@inbox.com > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] Attempting to update from R 2.14 to 2.15 on > Ubuntu > > > > On 06/12/2012 02:42 PM, John Kane wrote: >> R-SIG-Debian >> >> I am very new to Linux so I probably am doing something stupid but I >> cannot seem to update to R 2.15 >> Using Ubuntu 12.02 Precise Penguin > > John, > > If you are using Ubuntu, don't mix the Debian repositories with Ubuntu > ones, it has the chance to create issues. > > The simplest thing to do is to remove the line from sources.list that > you added with that ends with squeeze-cran. > > Then run the following command, which will add my R PPA from launchpad: > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marutter/rrutter > > This is the PPA that feeds the CRAN mirrors. Then run > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > > And the latest versions of R should be installed. > > Hope this helps, > Michael > John Kane Kingston ON Canada > -----Original Message----- > From: chet.selig...@gmail.com > Sent: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:27:49 -0700 > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Upgrading on Ubuntu from 2.11.1 to 2.15.1 > > This doesn't work, what should I do? > > sudo apt-get install r-base > [sudo] password for cseligman: > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > r-base is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > > Also: >> .libPaths() > [1] "/export/home/cseligman/local/library/R" > [2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" > [3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library" > [4] "/usr/lib/R/library" > [5] "/usr/lib64/R/library" > > > Thanks, > > Chet > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
