[R] RPM of R-1.2.1 for RH 7?

A.J. Rossini
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 03:32:46 -0000

>>>>> "TL" == Thomas Lumley <thomas at
biostat.washington.edu> writes:

    TL> On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Jonathan Baron wrote:
    >> There does not seem to be a RPM for Red Hat 7 of version 1.2.1.
    >> What should I do?  I have a new computer with RH7.

    TL> The easiest thing to do is to install from source.  You will
    TL> need to up/downgrade your gcc, though.  The notorious "gcc
    TL> 2.96" supplied with RH7 causes a number of problems with R.

The hard thing to do is to "upgrade" from RH 7.0 to Debian''s
"testing"
distribution, add CRAN''s Debian archive to the list of sources, and
use Doug Bates'' build... :-)

best,
-tony

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