How to update R to the latest version?

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

Your ubuntu is very old! (8.04). So you have twomoptions:
1)  compoile from source
2) upgrade ubuntu, then upgrade R

Kjetil

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:44, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I installed R by the following command. However, the R version is only
> 2.6.2. I'm wondering how to update it to the latest one by the
> automatic package manage system?
>
> sudo apt-get install r-base
>
> My ubuntu is of the following version.
>
> $ lsb_release -a
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS
> Release:        8.04
> Codename:       hardy
>
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