on 05/16/2008 07:22 AM Peter Dalgaard wrote:
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.
Thanks Peter :-)
Jon, before you jump on the F9 bandwagon, you might want to note my post
on r-devel from this past Wednesday:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2008-May/049569.html
Best regards,
Marc
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