[R] Old packages or Update R?

[Marc Fischer]

Folks,

I've got a box running Redhat 9 with R 1.7.1.  I need the "foreign" 
package but the one on CRAN is for the current rev of R (i.e., 
2.4).  Problem is I am naive and also can't find the R-2.4.rpm 
appropriate for RedHat 9.  Can someone suggest a repository of old 
packages or do I need to build (sounds frightening) R 2.4 for RedHat 9?

-Marc