{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ucberkeley/bce/issues/31","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ucberkeley/bce/issues/31/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ucberkeley/bce/issues/31/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/ucberkeley/bce/issues/31/events","html_url":"https://github.com/ucberkeley/bce/issues/31","id":72717588,"number":31,"title":"Install latest R from CRAN?","user":{"login":"ck37","id":50770,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/50770?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37","html_url":"https://github.com/ck37","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ck37/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-05-02T23:34:51Z","updated_at":"2015-05-02T23:34:51Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Would it be possible to use CRAN's version of R rather than the default one in Ubuntu? I have found that I have to re-install R from CRAN since the current one on BCE is pretty old (3.0.2 rather than ~3.2.0) and has bugs that prevent parallel machine learning in caret from working.\r\n\r\nSwitching to Ubuntu 15.04 is helpful but still gets us a somewhat old version of R (3.1) - https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/i386/r-base-core\r\n\r\nAccording to http://askubuntu.com/questions/506560/how-to-install-package-of-r we would need to add a CRAN mirror to the apt packages list that is specific to the Ubuntu version, then that will be used when installing R."}}