[R] Fedora 9?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Jonathan Baron wrote:
> Not to be impatient, but something seems odd.
>
> The CRAN repository has nothing for Fedora 9.
>
> The RPM of R that comes with Fedora 9 is version 2.6.2.  Someone
> connected with the Fedora project must have built that.
>
> R 2.7 is not in the "updates" for Fedora 9, so nobody connected with
> Fedora has done that.
>
> However - and this is the odd thing - the "development" repository of
> Fedora has R 2.7 for Fedora 10.  So whoever did that skipped Fedora 9.
>
> Advice?  
>
> I will happily accept the answers "wait" or "install from source" or
> "submit a bug report to Fedora."  I just want to know, in part so I
> know what to do with the computer that serves RSiteSearch (which is
> still running Fedora 8 and R 2.6.2).
>
> Jon
>   
There's already a bugzilla report, see

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-May/msg01341.html

The upshot seems to be that

(a) 2.7.0 came out while F9 was frozen

(b) while F9 was frozen there were also no F8/F7 version upgrades (so
that you don't need to downgrade R to upgrade Fedora)

(c) the process for getting new releases out is intrinsically slow.
There's a "karma system" where potential new RPM's are kept in
quarantine and can be thumbed up or down by testers, and this apparently
invariably times out at a score of 0 after two weeks (a +3 would cause
immediate release).

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