R help - Jun 2009 - R version-2.9.1 for Linux

Hi All,

I am currently using R version 2.8.1 on linux cent os 4.4 (i386) and 
want to upgrade to version 2.9.1. It seems to me that version-2.9.1 is 
it not for my OS.
Am I right?


Regards
Utkarsh


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On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:20 AM, utkarshsinghal wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am currently using R version 2.8.1 on linux cent os 4.4 (i386) and
> want to upgrade to version 2.9.1. It seems to me that version-2.9.1 is
> it not for my OS.
> Am I right?
>
>
> Regards
> Utkarsh


R for CentOS (and RHEL) is available via the Extra Packages for  
Enterprise Linux (EPEL). More information on how to use the EPEL is  
here:

   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

At the moment, it would appear that they have not yet released 2.9.1,  
but they do have 2.9.0 as can be seen here:

   http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/4/i386/repoview/R- 
core.html

There is usually a bit of a delay in the Fedora/EPEL repos releasing a  
new version of R, but I would expect to see something soon.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Marc Schwartz wrote:
> There is usually a bit of a delay in the Fedora/EPEL repos releasing a new 
> version of R, but I would expect to see something soon.
I have R-2.9.1 on CentOS 5, and did since the day of release 
announcement.  I am not so sure it would build on CentOS 4 
series, but will test and see.

The source RPM I produced is at:
 	ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/mirror/ORC/R/R-2.9.1-1orc.src.rpm

There is a slight dependency on non-present vi packages under 
CentOS 5, but they may be bypassed.  SRPM rebuilding is 
covered under CentOS at:
 	http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM
and related pages

-- Russ herrold
 	herrold @ centos.org

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, utkarshsinghal wrote:
> I am currently using R version 2.8.1 on linux cent os 4.4 
> (i386) and want to upgrade to version 2.9.1. It seems to me 
> that version-2.9.1 is it not for my OS.
> Am I right?
CentOS 4.4 is quite old at this point ...

The following Build Requirements for the SRPM I mentioned 
earlier are not present pre se on a CentOS 4 platform (and are 
readily available on a CentOS 5):

 	gcc-gfortran	(workaround exists under another
 		package name)
 	texinfo-tex	(workaround exists)
 	java-1.5.0-gcj	(workaround exists)
 	lapack-devel	(looks readily solveable, but not
 		present)
 	libSM-devel	(present in xorg-x11-devel)
 	libX11-devel	(present under another package name -
 		xorg-x11-devel)
 	libICE-devel	(present in xorg-x11-devel)
 	libXt-devel	(present in xorg-x11-devel)
 	libXmu-devel	(present in xorg-x11-devel)
 	cairo-devel	not present, has a shifting API, and
 		is hard to solve in CentOS 4

Hope this helps -- moving to CentOS 5 series will make life 
much simpler for you, and it a fairly painless upgrade

-- Russ herrold
 	herrold at centos dot org

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:20 PM,
utkarshsinghal<utkarsh.singhal at global-analytics.com>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am currently using R version 2.8.1 on linux cent os 4.4 (i386) and
> want to upgrade to version 2.9.1. It seems to me that version-2.9.1 is
> it not for my OS.
> Am I right?
>
>
> Regards
> Utkarsh
>
Build it from source?

Cheers,
Mark