> On Jan 14, 2020, at 3:29 PM, Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I do want to entice people to have a long look beyond closed >> source OS into the world of Free Software where not only R is >> FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) but (all / almost) all the >> tools you use are of that same spirit. > > And while everyone is talking about operating systems... > > Recently, I tried to install R on Fedora. > However, it only gave me the option of downloading and installing R > 3.6.1, when the current release is/was R 3.6.2. > I decided to wait, and may try again later, over the next week. > > Is it possible for things to be free *and* simple?
Abby, Which version of Fedora are you on? The Fedora RPM build system for R: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1230 would seem to suggest that R 3.6.2 may not be available for Fedora 29 or earlier, which is not a surprise, given the rapid update cycle used on Fedora. R 3.6.2 is available for Fedora 30, 31 and 32 per the above page. If you are on Fedora >=30, you might check your yum repo to see if it has been properly updated. Otherwise, if you are on Fedora <=29, you should think about updating your Fedora installation. You may or may not be aware that there is a dedicated list for R on Fedora/RHEL and derivatives: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora Tom Callaway, who is the RH/Fedora maintainer for R is on that list, so you can pose queries to him via that list for any issues with R on Fedora. Regards, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
