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

[Rolf Turner]

Thanks to everyone who responded and confirmed my hope that I am not such
a complete idiot as I probably am! :-)

Looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and upgrade soon, but.  
Psigh!!!

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz> 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 correcct?
>
> 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.