For future reference: upgrading to R 2.14 on Ubuntu 11.10

Today, I needed to upgrade from R 2.13 to R 2.14 on ubuntu 11.10, because I wanted to install the "tm" package.

It's easy once you know how -- you just need to get your debian sources.list pointed to the right place. For future ref, here are my notes on how this feat is accomplished.


Instructions for upgrading
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/

List of CRAN mirrors
http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html

My favorite mirror:
http://cran.mtu.edu/

The line I added to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://cran.mtu.edu/bin/linux/ubuntu oneiric/

From there, it's just a simple

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install r-base
   sudo apt-get install r-base-dev