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

[Tom Callaway]

On 08/02/2013 06:01 AM, Rolf Turner wrote:
> 
> 
> 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).

Nope, this is right. F17 just end-of-lifed, so I never did a 3.0.1 build
for it (because it would also mean I had to rebuild every other R
package in the Fedora 17 tree).

Apologies for the inconvenience,

~tom

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