Cannot update packages on F8
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Marc Schwartz
<marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have just updated R to the version 2.6.2 on F8 (with the official F8 > rpm). However, when running as root the following command: > > update.packages(checkBuilt=T) > > I get a bunch of errors like the ones below. Any ideas?
# yum install R-devel should do what you need. If you install via RPMS, in order to install/compile CRAN packages from source, you also need the headers and related files, which are in the 'devel' RPMS. This is also the case for other applications on RH/FC/F Linux. If you use: yum list R-* you will see the other R related RPMS that are available via the Fedora repos.
Thanks, Marc. That did the trick. However, it is strange because yum update did the update of R, and, before this R update, 'update.packages' worked fine. Paul