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Today my Update Manager in Ubuntu 12.04. updated R to the latest version called "R version 3.1.0 beta (2014-03-28 r65330) -- "Spring Dance""

I had a lot of trouble after the upgrade and I needed to manually downgrade the R-Core again as described here

Is there a way to avoid upgrades to beta versions?

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Joschi
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  • The version of R provided by Ubuntu 12.04 is still 2.14 (see http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=r-base ) - so you have added some repository which has provided a beta version. – chronitis Apr 07 '14 at 09:59
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    Both the "official" CRAN Ubuntu repository and the ~marutter PPA now appear to have this version (the package is called 3.0.3.20140328 but identifies itself as 3.1.0 beta), so you probably got it from one of those. Running update.packages(checkBuilt=T) should solve most problems with R packages not loading though. – chronitis Apr 07 '14 at 10:09

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Probably the best one is not to use PPAs. I have no custom PPA so I have this candidate for installation:

$ sudo apt-cache policy r-base
r-base:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.0.1-3ubuntu1
  Version table:
     3.0.1-3ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe amd64 Packages

Once you have the PPA you should purge it

sudo ppa-purge ppa:yourppa/ppa

This will revert the software automatically to the default version available in universe.

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  • seems to be the case yes. Problem without adding the PPA is that you only get the approved versions which are sometimes a little bit outdated ... but okay. – Joschi Apr 07 '14 at 14:31