Message-ID: <6ade6f6c0803271541x535a7df2r47265e2d5f242446@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2008-03-27T22:41:15Z
From: Paul Smith
Subject: Cannot update packages on F8
In-Reply-To: <47EC1D91.7080203@comcast.net>
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