[R] Need to run R on Fedora 9.

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
>>> I'm in need of a version of R that will run on fedora 9 and haven't been
>>> able
>>> to find one.  I need this in order to run Bioconductor.  Any advice?
>>
>> Why not say (as root)
>> yum install R
>> ?
>>
>> Worked for me.  The point is that there is now a Fedora rpm for R.
>
> I'm still on F8, but I think you might want to make that "yum install R
> R-devel", so that you get the build tools. Otherwise, (some?) source
> packages will get you in trouble.

Here, on F9, I simply did:

yum install R R-devel

and it worked successfully.

Paul