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Since not so long, I upgraded the version of R that is included in the Debian repositories (2.11.1 in Squeeze) and I was very happy with it since 2010. But there was some packages that I could not install and then, I decided to upgrade R despite of having to upgrade every package too (I have more than 1 GB in my home R packages folder).
There’s nothing new or tricky about how to upgrade, the awesome guys of CRAN always brings an answer for our needs.
Then, add these lines at the bottom of the file (Note, I use the UCLA server, but this can be easily changed taking a look here for the mirrors):
THIRD PART: SECURE APT:
The Debian backports archives on CRAN are signed with the key ID 381BA480, to add them, in a Terminal prompt type:
There’s nothing new or tricky about how to upgrade, the awesome guys of CRAN always brings an answer for our needs.
FIRST PART: ADD R BACKPORTS:
First, open a Terminal and open the sources.list file:
$ gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Then, add these lines at the bottom of the file (Note, I use the UCLA server, but this can be easily changed taking a look here for the mirrors):
## R BACKPORTSdeb http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/#deb-src http://cran.stat.ucla.edu/bin/linux/debian squeeze-cran/The original set of instructions can be seen here.
SECOND PART: RENAME THE R PACKAGES FOLDER:
There’s a folder where R uses to store the packages we download, just rename it to the current version of R.
For example, mine was “2.11” and then I just renamed it to “2.14” (or “2.15“, without quotes) and was inside this path:
Before:
/home/benjamin/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.11
After:
/home/benjamin/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15
Remember that some packages also needs to install some files in folders that belongs to the root, so, I would recommend to open R in sudo mode (only if you’re sure about what you’re doing :P) just by executing R this way: “sudo R” and then, in the R console type :
update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE)THIRD PART: SECURE APT:
The Debian backports archives on CRAN are signed with the key ID 381BA480, to add them, in a Terminal prompt type:
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 381BA480
gpg -a --export 381BA480 > jranke_cran.asc
sudo apt-key add jranke_cran.asc
FOURTH PART: UPDATE AND UPGRADE R:Save the file and you can either enter to Synaptic, update the packages list and then just upgrade the packages or in a terminal type:
sudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get upgradeAnd that’s all.
Benjamin
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