On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner@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 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
>
> Hello Rolf,

this seems to be the case, that f17 is not updated to 3.0.1, but all other
branches are. So you just need to upgrade to f18, which is not the latest
fedora release. The latest stable release is f19, but with the upgrade to
f18 you would buy yourself time until one month after the release of fedora
20.
For a quick overview:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/R-core/overview/

I hope this helps and explains the issue.

Johannes

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