Jonathan Baron wrote: > Not to be impatient, but something seems odd. > > The CRAN repository has nothing for Fedora 9. > > The RPM of R that comes with Fedora 9 is version 2.6.2. Someone > connected with the Fedora project must have built that. > > R 2.7 is not in the "updates" for Fedora 9, so nobody connected with > Fedora has done that. > > However - and this is the odd thing - the "development" repository of > Fedora has R 2.7 for Fedora 10. So whoever did that skipped Fedora 9. > > Advice? > > I will happily accept the answers "wait" or "install from source" or > "submit a bug report to Fedora." I just want to know, in part so I > know what to do with the computer that serves RSiteSearch (which is > still running Fedora 8 and R 2.6.2). > > Jon > There's already a bugzilla report, see
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-May/msg01341.html The upshot seems to be that (a) 2.7.0 came out while F9 was frozen (b) while F9 was frozen there were also no F8/F7 version upgrades (so that you don't need to downgrade R to upgrade Fedora) (c) the process for getting new releases out is intrinsically slow. There's a "karma system" where potential new RPM's are kept in quarantine and can be thumbed up or down by testers, and this apparently invariably times out at a score of 0 after two weeks (a +3 would cause immediate release). -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
