On 08/02/2013 06:01 AM, Rolf Turner wrote: > > > I am currently (still) running Fedora 17 --- having not managed to screw > my courage to the sticking place and upgrade. > Even though we are now up to Fedora 20, I think. The traffic on the > Fedora mailing list on the upgrading issue is a bit terrifying. > > I would just like to confirm that: > > It is ***NOT*** possible to download a binary of R for Fedora 17. > > Is this correct? > > My efforts to obtain a binary using yum install resulted in a binary for > version 2.15.2. (Whereas of course the source version available from > CRAN is 3.0.1. > > I just wanted to check that I am not doing something stupid (like maybe > using an incorrect repository).
Nope, this is right. F17 just end-of-lifed, so I never did a 3.0.1 build for it (because it would also mean I had to rebuild every other R package in the Fedora 17 tree). Apologies for the inconvenience, ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
