Peter Dalgaard wrote: > 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). > > Credit where due: I forgot to say that Marc Schwartz dug out most of this information.
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