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

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 19:15 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-10-26 at 19:22 +0100, Pierre-Yves wrote:
> >> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> >>> Give me an hour or so, and I should be able to have the new and improved
> >>> version out.
> >> Please let us know when it will be available I have ~15 packages from 
> >> Bioconductor to update with this version of R :)
> > 
> > I just finished submitting the update for R-2.8.0 for Fedora 8 and
> > Fedora 9. Rawhide (aka, Fedora 10) has it already.
> > 
> > Please test these new R packages and leave a "works-for-me" comment on
> > the update if it works for you. :)
> > 
> > F8:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-1.0.3-4.fc8,R-2.8.0-2.fc8
> > 
> > F9:
> > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-1.0.3-4.fc9,R-2.8.0-2.fc9
> > 
> 
> Tom, just one more thing:
> 
> I wonder if this bundling of R and rpy is fortunate. Most R users don't 
> (AFAIK) use rpy, and won't be able to test whether it works.

Since rpy is tied so closely to R, we have to do them both at the same
time or else rpy won't even install. On the plus side, rpy almost never
breaks. 

Testing R is good enough for me to flip it to stable. :)

~spot