R SIG Fedora - Jul 2016 - R-3.3.1 RPM release

Hi All,

I have installed on a RHEL 5.7 server the recent R-3.3.0 rpm but I would like to
upgrade to the latest now available R-3.3.1 . I have not found so far the rpm, I
would like to know if and when it will be available?

Thanks in advance,
Cris



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On 07/05/2016 10:34 AM, Sangalli Cristiano Giovanni (Ext. - UniCredit
Business Integrated Solutions) wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have installed on a RHEL 5.7 server the recent R-3.3.0 rpm but I would
like to upgrade to the latest now available R-3.3.1 . I have not found so far
the rpm, I would like to know if and when it will be available?
I've just returned from several weeks of traveling and conferences. I
hope to have 3.3.1 builds out this week.

~tom

=Red Hat

Hi Tom

Thanks a lot for your kind answer.

Cris

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Callaway [mailto:tcallawa at redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2016 5:35 PM
To: Sangalli Cristiano Giovanni (Ext. - UniCredit Business Integrated
Solutions); r-sig-fedora at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Fedora] R-3.3.1 RPM release

On 07/05/2016 10:34 AM, Sangalli Cristiano Giovanni (Ext. - UniCredit Business
Integrated Solutions) wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have installed on a RHEL 5.7 server the recent R-3.3.0 rpm but I would
like to upgrade to the latest now available R-3.3.1 . I have not found so far
the rpm, I would like to know if and when it will be available?
I've just returned from several weeks of traveling and conferences. I hope
to have 3.3.1 builds out this week.

~tom

=Red Hat

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Thank you!

Since I've gotten a few off-list replies, I feel like it's worth
pointing out why people are having trouble building R from source on
RHEL/CentOS 5 & 6.

R has always depended on some third party libraries, specifically,
zlib, bzip2, xz, pcre, and curl. Prior to R 3.3.0, R depended on much
older versions of these libraries, but, if they were not found on the
system, they'd use bundled copies that were built on the fly. With
3.3.0+, R now depends on much newer versions of these libraries and no
longer has bundled copies to fall back to.

This means that R 3.3.0+ won't build against RHEL/CentOS 5 or 6 as is,
because all of these libraries are too old on those releases of
RHEL/CentOS. (RHEL/CentOS 7 is new enough, as is all currently supported
releases of Fedora).

Realizing that there are a lot of R users in situations where the
distribution of Linux is out of their control (or who cannot upgrade to
RHEL/CentOS 7 for some reason), I spent a not small amount of time
figuring out how to build static copies of these libraries into R for
EL5/EL6 (and then even more time cleaning the evidence of this work out
of the internals so it didn't inherit into CRAN builds).

That said, you really should consider moving from EL5/6 to EL7. It's nice.

Builds of 3.3.1 are going through koji right now. EL5, EL6, and EL7 are
finished, Fedora 22-24 will be done shortly. Please test and give feedback:

EL5:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-fa43c0f5fa

EL6:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-6add114acf

EL7:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-0f6db0c4e2

~tom

=Red Hat

Hi Tom

Sorry for the late feedback. I could install the RPMs built by you successfully
without issues.

Thanks again for your quick answer.

Cris

-----Original Message-----
From: R-SIG-Fedora [mailto:r-sig-fedora-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of
Tom Callaway
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2016 4:34 PM
To: r-sig-fedora at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Fedora] R-3.3.1 RPM release

Since I've gotten a few off-list replies, I feel like it's worth
pointing out why people are having trouble building R from source on RHEL/CentOS
5 & 6.

R has always depended on some third party libraries, specifically, zlib, bzip2,
xz, pcre, and curl. Prior to R 3.3.0, R depended on much older versions of these
libraries, but, if they were not found on the system, they'd use bundled
copies that were built on the fly. With 3.3.0+, R now depends on much newer
versions of these libraries and no longer has bundled copies to fall back to.

This means that R 3.3.0+ won't build against RHEL/CentOS 5 or 6 as is,
because all of these libraries are too old on those releases of RHEL/CentOS.
(RHEL/CentOS 7 is new enough, as is all currently supported releases of Fedora).

Realizing that there are a lot of R users in situations where the distribution
of Linux is out of their control (or who cannot upgrade to RHEL/CentOS 7 for
some reason), I spent a not small amount of time figuring out how to build
static copies of these libraries into R for
EL5/EL6 (and then even more time cleaning the evidence of this work out of the
internals so it didn't inherit into CRAN builds).

That said, you really should consider moving from EL5/6 to EL7. It's nice.

Builds of 3.3.1 are going through koji right now. EL5, EL6, and EL7 are
finished, Fedora 22-24 will be done shortly. Please test and give feedback:

EL5:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-fa43c0f5fa

EL6:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-6add114acf

EL7:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2016-0f6db0c4e2

~tom

=Red Hat

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