Current Ubuntu version of R is old

[Paul Smith]

On Dec 1, 2007 12:38 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > I am just beginning with Ubuntu and I have just installed R. The
> > current version of R is 2.6.1, but Ubuntu brings up the 2.5.1 one, an
> > old version. Why is that?
>
> Could I suggest you provide package names when referring to something like
> this, please?  I remember installing R a couple of months back and having a
> hell of a time finding it because, like months, practically every package
> has an "r" in it somewhere...
>
> r-base is hardly very old for an ubuntu package.  It takes time to integrate
> a package into ubuntu, and the ubuntu (or debian, or any distro's package)
> is always going to lag behind the upstream version.  It's just the price
> you pay for getting prepackaged versions of your software.  I think you'll
> find that most of us use whatever Ubuntu comes with for the software that
> doesn't really matter to us, but for the really important apps - to us - we
> look elsewhere.

Thanks, Derek. Yes, I wanted to mean r-base. And yes, R is important
to me, but I do not know where to find a package with a more recent
version of r-base to work on Ubuntu.

Paul