It's a digital signature (GNU Privacy Guard). Typically to allow you to verify that the stuff you install is what it says that it is.
However, you are not likely to get more informative answers than that in this forum. Possible better is the R-SIG-debian lists or forums specifically for AWS. (& it is not like googling for "GPG AWS" draws a complete blank.) -pd > On 28 Aug 2018, at 13:26 , akshay kulkarni <akshay...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > dear members, > I am trying to install R in ubuntu AWS > instance.... > > While getting help from google, I came across something called GPG key. How > to get the GPG key for an AWS ubuntu instance? More over, what is a GPG key? > > Any general help on installing R in ubuntu AWS instance? > > very many thanks for your time and effort... > yours sincerely, > AKSHAY M KULKARNI > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
