[R] Fwd: R install in Fedora

[Michael Hannon]

> Actually I tried in both ways : "yum install R" and  sudo yum install R ,
> but the error is same.  I have root privilege, means I used the command su -
> and enter the password.  May be its problem from Fedora.  Thanks for your
> valuable help. I will post this issue in R-SIG-Fedora list.

Kind Regards

Wesley
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [R] R install in Fedora
To: wesley mathew <wesleycmathew at gmail.com>
Cc: r-help at r-project.org


On Sep 15, 2010, at 5:14 AM, wesley mathew wrote:

> Dear All
>
> As you suggested I tried to install  was trying to install
> R-2.11.1-3.fc13.1686 in  Fedora-13-i386 but it also shows error.
> I wrote  yum install R-2.11.1-3fc13.i686
> Errors
> Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repond.xml) for repository: fedora.
> Please verify its path and try again.
> Could you please help me to solve this problem.
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Note that the error reported by Fedora has nothing at all to do with the fact
that you're trying to install R.  Fedora has a (user-configurable) set of
"repositories" -- places to look for software -- from which it will try to
install packages.

In Fedora 13 (the latest version) the repositories are listed in:

    /etc/yum.repos.d

Fedora will check with every web site that appears in a stanza marked
"enabled=1" in the files in that directory when you do a "yum install", "yum
update", etc.

My guess is that you've got a network problem and/or there's an error in the
file:

    /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora

Often such problems just magically disappear as intermediate routers get
rebooted, etc.

As a minor aside, note that if you have sudo set up on your computer, you do
NOT need the root password to perform whatever tasks you're allowed to do by
the sudo configuration.  Of course, you do have to have root privileges to set
up the sudo configuration in the first place.

-- Mike