[R] New mailing list R-SIG-Fedora

[Martyn Plummer]

Thanks to Martin Maechler, there is a new special interest group (SIG)
mailing list for users of R on Fedora: http://www.fedoraproject.org

Fedora users will have noticed that RPMs for R 2.7.0 have not yet
arrived through the Fedora Yum channel.  This is because Fedora 9 went
into feature freeze, blocking all updates, before R 2.7.0 was
released.  

However, this is not the only reason for the delay.  The Fedora project
has introduced a peer review system. Package updates must now be tested
before they are pushed through to the yum repository.  The RPMs for R
2.7.0 on Fedora 7, 8, and 9 are currently available on the admin site:

Fedora 9:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-4012

Fedora 8:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-4059

Fedora 7:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-4021

Your help is needed to push these through to the yum repository. If you
are a Fedora user, please download, test and score these RPMs.  You can
do this as an "anonymous tester" if you wish. Once the karma score
reaches 2, the package will be pushed into "stable" repository and will
become available through yum.

R packages that are distributed as RPMs must also be peer reviewed.
There is a version of R-Matrix that has been sitting in the testing
queue for Fedora 8 since February...

If you want to do this on a regular basis, please join the R-SIG-Fedora
mailing list, where future announcements on this topic will be posted.
The list is also open to all discussions of interest to Fedora users.

The home page is: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora

Thanks
Martyn


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Martyn Plummer <martyn.plummer at r-project.org>

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