[Rd] R 2.1.1 slated for June 20

[Marc Schwartz]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 23:52 +0200, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Marc Schwartz <MSchwartz at mn.rr.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 14:57 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > > On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The next version of R will be released (barring force majeure) on June
> > > > 20th, with beta versions available starting Monday.
> > > >
> > > > Please do check them on your system *before* the release this time...
> > > 
> > > Some things which it would be particularly helpful to have tested:
> > 
> > 
> > > - Bleeding-edge OSes, e.g. anyone running Fedora Core 4 test 3?  (These
> > >    often show up problems with bugs in the pre-release versions of
> > >    components such as X11 and compilers.)
> > 
> > 
> > Just as a quick heads up, I installed FC4 Release ("Stentz") late
> > yesterday.
> > 
> > R (Version 2.1.1 beta (2005-06-14)) compiles fine using:
> > 
> > $ gcc --version
> > gcc (GCC) 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8)
> > 
> > and make check-all passes with no problems.
> > 
> > I have also installed all CRAN packages that do not require other 3rd
> > party drivers, etc. and there were no observed errors in those cases.
> > 
> > So far, so good.
> > 
> > If anything comes up, I will post a follow up.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Marc Schwartz
> 
> Yep. Just tried the same on AMD64 (I had a bit of a fight converting
> my SuSE setup -- FC4 is quite unhappy about ReiserFS for some reason).
> A couple of f95 warnings whooshed by during the compile, that was all.
> 
> By the way, I noticed that you can now "yum install R R-devel" and get
> everything straight from Fedora Extras.

Yep. Tom "Spot" Callaway is the FE maintainer for R.

A lot of things for FC 4 have been moved to Extras and there are of
course new things (like R) there as well. The restrictions on non-GPL
components is still there, so things like MP3 functionality is available
via third party repos such as FreshRPMS, Livna, etc.

This was a "balancing" act between trying to reduce (manage) the size of
the main distro and reducing real or perceived redundancies in packages.

So, for example:

1. Include OO.org in Core, but move Gnumeric to Extras

2. Include Emacs in Core, but move XEmacs to Extras

Needless to say, that resulted in "emotional" discussions.

Marc