Why does apt-get install r-base install 3.2.3 instead of 3.4.0 in R?

Question

I am trying to install the latest version of R (3.4.0) due to some incompatibility issues with dowloading of a package called \"Slam\". I have downloaded the tar.gz file of 3.4.

Answer 1

you need to install from the CRAN repos not the ubuntu ones. add the key, then the repository, update and the apt-get

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb [arch=amd64,i386] https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial/'

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install r-base