[R] R versions for Red Hat Linux

[Marc Schwartz]

On May 11, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Marta Avalos wrote:

> Dear all,
> The latest R version available for Red Hat Linux is 2.10 (from November 
> 2009), whereas the latest version available for Debian, Suse or Ubuntu Linux 
> is 2.13 (from May 2011). 
> Has someone some information about the development/release of new R versions 
> for Red Hat?
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> Marta 


R for RHEL based Linux distributions has been available for some time via the EPEL:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

You can review the instructions there for configuring your system to use the EPEL and then use 'yum' to install R:

  sudo yum install R

If by Red Hat, you are actually referring to Fedora, R is available via the regular Fedora repos. Just use the same command line incantation as above.

Also, just an FYI that there is a R-SIG-Fedora list, which focused on RH and Fedora specific issues. More info at:

  https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora

HTH,

Marc Schwartz