One can edit the file using the following command: sudo -H gedit /etc/apt/sources.list With R 2.14 slated to be released next week we wanted to encourage everyone planning to upgrade to also update to the latest release of RStudio (v0.94.110). For R 2.14 users this release includes tweaks related to compatibility with the R 2.14 graphics engine as well as compatibility with the new parallel package. If you get an error, either install this ( sudo apt-get install gedit) or use another editor like nano ( sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list).įind a working server to download R from that also has the version of R you are interested in. Updates will only be checked from the same source for example, if a package was installed from GitHub, but a newer version is available on CRAN, that updated version will not be seen. This often means that one has to look for the name of the latest Ubuntu release. You can call renv::update() with no arguments to update all packages within the project, excluding any packages ignored via the ignored.packages project setting. The current release of Bioconductor is version 3.15 it works with R version 4.2.0.

2.6.5 UPDATING R, RSTUDIO, AND YOUR PACKAGES Our advice is to only update things when you need to, and not every time a new version appears ( i.e. A list of releases is maintained on the Ubuntu website. Users of older R and Bioconductor must update their installation to take advantage of new features and to access packages that have been added to Bioconductor since the last release.

The development version of Bioconductor is version 3.16 it works with R. To find out your current version, open R and it will be shown in the console. Look for the latest released version and use only the first word in its name without capitalization. If you are using RStudio you can check you R version by clicking on Tools>Global. For instance, for the 16.04 release, the full name is Xenial Xerus and the name to use is thus xenial. If you decide to upgrade your version of R, simply choose a CRAN mirror in the download page and follow the procedure you used to initially download and install. Thus, we add the following line to the sources.list: deb xenial/ To obtain fixes, security updates, and new functionality, you must upgrade to the latest refresh of RStudio Server with R 3.6. Note that the above line uses the mirror.

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