A bit off-topic, but... On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 05:45, Abby Spurdle <spurdl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Which version of Fedora are you on? > > I've got Fedora 31. > I just checked, and R 3.6.2 is available now.
R 3.6.2 was submitted a month ago for testing and reached stable 19 days ago [1]. At any time, you can see which version is available in stable (updates repo) and in testing for all supported Fedora and EPEL versions in [2]. > Progress... > ...however, there's another problem. > > From the dependencies: > R-java x86_64 3.6.2-1.fc31 updates 10 k > R-java-devel x86_64 3.6.2-1.fc31 updates 9.9 k > java-1.8.0-openjdk x86_64 1:1.8.0.232.b09-0.fc31 updates 281 k > java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel x86_64 1:1.8.0.232.b09-0.fc31 updates 9.3 M > java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless > x86_64 1:1.8.0.232.b09-0.fc31 updates 32 M > > So, Linux's R (or at least Fedora's R) is dependent on Java. > -> Bad idea... (Not so) fresh news: R officially supports Java [3], and many packages on CRAN use Java (at least 170 by my count). So if you simply install "R", you are requesting a *full* R installation, which of course includes Java. However, if you don't want Java nor any of these packages, R-core and R-core-devel do not depend on Java, as Ralf pointed out. > I'm using OpenJ9, so I can't install R like this without causing > significant problems. > (But please someone correct me if I'm wrong). Note though that the R-java bits do not depend on any specific version of Java. Several versions of Java can coexist, and then you can switch between them using alternatives [4]. [1] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-3d6f517d22 [2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/R [3] https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Java-support [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Java -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
