[R-sig-Fedora] R binaries for Fedora 17.

[Rolf Turner]

I am currently (still) running Fedora 17 --- having not managed to screw 
my courage to the sticking place and upgrade.
Even though we are now up to Fedora 20, I think. The traffic on the 
Fedora mailing list on the upgrading issue is a bit terrifying.

I would just like to confirm that:

     It is ***NOT*** possible to download a binary of R for  Fedora 17.

Is this correct?

My efforts to obtain a binary using yum install resulted in a binary for 
version 2.15.2.  (Whereas of course the source version available from 
CRAN is 3.0.1.

I just wanted to check that I am not doing something stupid (like maybe 
using an incorrect repository).

I presume that the latest version of R is available as a binary only for 
the last version (or last few versions) of Fedora.

Can anyone confirm my presumption?

No biggie.  I can build from source, and indeed have done so.   But 
downloading a binary is quicker and I'd just like to get straight what 
the true state of play is.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner