On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 23:59 +0100, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Jonathan Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Fedora uses yum as well as rpm. I haven't installed an RPM in > > months, except for R. Yum is great. > > Actually, Martyn set up CRAN as a yum repository. I have > > $ more /etc/yum.repos.d/R.repo > [R] > name=CRAN Fedora $releasever - $basearch > baseurl=http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/fc$releasever/$basearch/ > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > > whereafter I could just say "yum install R", and in due course I > presume "yum update R".
You can also configure "up2date" - the slightly annoying pulsating red icon on the panel - to get automatic notification of updates from CRAN. Instructions are in the ReadMe file in the same directory as the Fedora Core 3 RPMS. Martyn ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html