R is included in Fedora Extras. You can skip downloading Extras and updating the packages on the CD by using: yum index | grep R and installing the half dozen or so individual packages that will be listed. The number of packages may be mildly annoying but if you install this way you will be notified of R updates along with all of your other security and application updates through the Red Hat Network. Chuck Charles E. White, Senior Biostatistician, MS Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 503 Robert Grant Ave., Room 1w102 Silver Spring, MD 20910-1557 301 319-9781 Personal/Professional Site:??http://users.starpower.net/cwhite571/professional/
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 09:59 -0400, White, Charles E WRAIR-Wash DC wrote:> R is included in Fedora Extras. You can skip downloading Extras and > updating the packages on the CD by using: > > yum index | grep R > > and installing the half dozen or so individual packages that will be > listed. The number of packages may be mildly annoying but if you > install this way you will be notified of R updates along with all of > your other security and application updates through the Red Hat > Network. > > Chuck >Peter Dalgaard has noted, on the R-Devel list (sorry I can't provide the link to the mail - the link from the R site to the mail archives wasn't working when I tried), that there are problems with the R rpm from Fedora Extras, including a strange printing bug. I believe Peter now thinks this is a bug in R (seem to have deleted that post - doh) exposed by the compilation flags used by the maintainer of the Fedora Extras rpm. If you want and rpm to install, then Martyn Plummer provides R binaries for Red Hat / Fedora systems that are available from CRAN e.g: for FC4 http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/fc4/ Martyn has also made these available via a yum-compatible repository, so the benefits you note of auto-notification of updates etc. apply here as well. HTH G -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%
-----Original Message----- On Fri, 8/19, Gavin Simpson wrote: Peter Dalgaard has noted, on the R-Devel list (sorry I can't provide the link to the mail - the link from the R site to the mail archives wasn't working when I tried), that there are problems with the R rpm from Fedora Extras, including a strange printing bug. I believe Peter now thinks this is a bug in R (seem to have deleted that post - doh) exposed by the compilation flags used by the maintainer of the Fedora Extras rpm. If you want and rpm to install, then Martyn Plummer provides R binaries for Red Hat / Fedora systems that are available from CRAN e.g: for FC4 http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/fc4/ Martyn has also made these available via a yum-compatible repository, so the benefits you note of auto-notification of updates etc. apply here as well. HTH G -----End Original Message----- The last time I tried to use the Martyn Plummer RPMs they were compiled without enabling shared libraries and I ended up compiling R myself so that I could use JGR. Messages describing the problem with the version actually on the Extras CD were my other unstated reason for describing yum instead of downloading the CD. I haven't heard there is a problem with Fedora's new RPMs but that doesn't prove that there aren't any. I fully agree with Martyn Plummer's readme notice that describes Fedora Core as bleeding edge technology not to be trusted for production use. Fedora Core describes itself that way.