[R] R 2.11 on redhat el5/x86_64?

[Dick Beyer]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for the links.  This is very helpful.  I'm very grateful.

Cheers,
Dick
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On Wed, 12 May 2010, Marc Schwartz wrote:

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> On May 12, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Dick Beyer wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Will compiled R 2.11 be made available for redhat el5/x86_64 soon?  The download link:
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>> http://cran.fhcrc.org/bin/linux/redhat/el5/x86_64/
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>> is still at R 2.10.0.
>>
>> Thanks much,
>> Dick
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> Not clear on when Martyn et al might make it available via CRAN, but in the mean time you can get R RPMS via the EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL).
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> It looks like the 2.11.0 RPM has not yet made it to the main EPEL repos as Tom has just pushed it to stable today (https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R-2.11.0-1.el5), but you can download what appears to be stable release version RPMs here:
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>  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=168431
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> Martyn and Tom have worked hard to make CRAN and the EPEL repos compatible in terms of the R RPM build process, so you should be fine from either source.
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> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
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