RPM based binary distributions of R 1.4.0 are avaiable on CRAN for the following flavours of Linux: Distribution Version Platform Packager Red Hat 7.x intel Martyn Plummer <plummer at iarc.fr> Red Hat 7.x alpha Naoki Takebayashi <ntakebay at bio.indiana.edu> Red Hat 6.x intel Stephen Eglen <stephen at gnu.org> Mandrake 8.1 intel Michele Alzetta <mikalzet at libero.it> LinuxPPC ppc Alex Buerkle <buerkla at uwec.edu> The RPMS are R-base: The base distribution R-recommended: Recommended packages Given the recent problems with CRAN being cracked, I would like to remind you that all of these binary distributions are signed with gpg by their respective maintainers. To verify the gpg signature of an rpm use a command like rpm --checksig R-base-1.4.0-1.i386.rpm First you must download the public key of the package maintainer from a public key server (see the man page for gpg). Martyn Plummer -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-announce mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-announce-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._