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

Peter Dalgaard BSA
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:58:31 -0000

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

> 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.
>
> The easiest thing to do is to install from source.  You will need to
> up/downgrade your gcc, though.  The notorious "gcc 2.96" supplied
with RH7
> causes a number of problems with R.
>
> Installing from source will mean you want to uninstall before installing
> an RPM, should one become available.

Notice that there are RPMs of 1.1.1 for RH7.0 in the updates section
at RedHat, and of 1.2.0 in the rawhide distribution. Both were made
after the (known) remaing issues with 2.96 was fixed and errataed.
(The latter is dated Dec 19 with the release of 1.2.0 on Dec 15, but I
wouldn''t expect you to be that lucky this time).

If you build from source, you *must* get the current update for gcc
2.96.

Besides, what''s wrong with Martyn''s version sitting at

http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/7.x/i386/R-base-1.2.1-1.i386.rpm

???.....

[Yeah, I only went to look *after* writing the first bit]

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