[R-sig-Fedora] When will R 2.8.0 be available for F9

[Marc Schwartz]

on 10/26/2008 08:43 AM Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> When will R 2.8.0 be available for F9?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul

Thanks to Martyn, it is available from CRAN mirrors, such as:

http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/fedora9/i386/R-2.8.0-1.fc9.i386.rpm


If you want to add a CRAN mirror to your yum list of repos, see:

http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/fedora7/i386/ReadMe


It would appear that 2.8.0 is not yet in Koji, which is the Fedora build
system. Given the Fedora Karma system, it can be at least a couple of
weeks after it is available there:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1230


It would then show up in Bodhi:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R

where folks can test the RPM and bump the Karma to push it to release.


I am guessing that there might be a delay in availability due to the
activity surrounding the very recent discussion on the consolidation of
R and R-devel to facilitate the installation of CRAN source code
packages, but would defer to Tom on that.

HTH,

Marc Schwartz