[R] Installing R in Fedora Core 4

[Gavin Simpson]

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
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