Dear All, Over the past month or two, I've been having problems updating R from the UK mirror of the CRAN repository. I have the R repository enabled:
sirtommy 13:41% more /etc/yum.repos.d/R.repo [R] name=CRAN R repository baseurl=http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/el5/i386/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=0 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-csieh file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-dawson file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-jpolok file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-cern However, "yum update" has persistently refused to update R, which has remained stuck at version 2.9.0 rather than the latest version 2.9.2. "yum clean all" makes no difference. On one of my SL52 machines I have done some further experiments, but they didn't solve the problem. I tried "yum install R-core" but got the error message --> Missing Dependency: perl(File::Copy::Recursive) is needed by package R-core-2.9.2-1.el5.i386 (R) That was resolved by installing the required perl package from the dag repo, but the next attempt to install R-core gave a stream of error messages about file conflicts, for example file /usr/lib/R/library/utils/html/example.html from install of R-core-2.9.2-1.el5 conflicts with file from package R-2.9.0-1.rh5 After I uninstalled the R-2.9.0 package, R-core would install, but "yum install R" found only the old R from sl-base, as did "yum list R": sirtommy 13:46% yum list R Loaded plugins: kernel-module, protect-packages Available Packages R.i386 2:2.7.0-1.sl5 sl-base What should I do to install R 2.9.2 from CRAN? Eva.