R help - Jan 2006 - Timeliness of precompiled binaries--R-2.2.1 still not available as RPM

R-2.2.1 is still not available for Redhat Linux as an RPM on CRAN.  It
is available as an SRPM.  Can someone fill me in on why it takes so long
to make RPMs available?  I would be happy to help make the RPMs for el4
and el3 if such help is needed.

Regards,
Scott Waichler
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
scott.waichler _at_ pnl.gov

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:38 -0800, Waichler, Scott R
wrote:
> R-2.2.1 is still not available for Redhat Linux as an RPM on CRAN.  It
> is available as an SRPM.  Can someone fill me in on why it takes so long
> to make RPMs available?  I would be happy to help make the RPMs for el4
> and el3 if such help is needed.
Because someone has to volunteer their time to create such things -
these are not automatically built by R-Core members. Martyn Plummer has
done this for as long as I've been using R...

...Mores the point, though, which CRAN mirror were you looking at? R
2.2.1 was in all the EL3/4 and FC3/4 i386 and x86_64 directories I could
be bothered to look at on the UK Bristol mirror for example.

G
> Regards,
> Scott Waichler
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
> scott.waichler _at_ pnl.gov
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