How to install R 2.11 on Ubuntu?

This is related to an ongoing issue that I'm having, where certain packages don't exist when I try install.packages开发者_运维问答 in R 2.10 (which is what's available from Ubuntu 10.04 apt-get). This includes highlight and Rcpp. Does anyone know how to install R 2.11 on Ubuntu 10.04?

NullUserException is correct. This should be your first choice. Vincent and Michael do a great job with these "ports" of the Debian packages I maintain. I actually use those "ported" packages myself on the Ubuntu machines I use.

If however you want to stay with the standard Ubuntu distribution, things will work as well. You must be doing something wrong (and you didn't show what you did) as install.packages() works just fine against CRAN mirrors whether your run an R binary from Ubuntu or the CRAN-for-Ubuntu repo referenced above.

Moreover, you can also work from source -- which is in fact how many of us develop our packages on Ubuntu and/or Debian.

Lastly, for questions like this, the r-sig-debian list is an excellent resource with friendly and timely replies for R on Debian / Ubuntu questions. Subscribe before you can post, though.