Installing R in Fedora Core 4

R is included in Fedora Extras. You can skip downloading Extras and
updating the packages on the CD by using:

yum index | grep R

and installing the half dozen or so individual packages that will be
listed.  The number of packages may be mildly annoying but if you
install this way you will be notified of R updates along with all of
your other security and application updates through the Red Hat
Network.

Chuck

Peter Dalgaard has noted, on the R-Devel list (sorry I can't provide the
link to the mail - the link from the R site to the mail archives wasn't
working when I tried), that there are problems with the R rpm from
Fedora Extras, including a strange printing bug. I believe Peter now
thinks this is a bug in R (seem to have deleted that post - doh) exposed
by the compilation flags used by the maintainer of the Fedora Extras
rpm.

If you want and rpm to install, then Martyn Plummer provides R binaries
for Red Hat / Fedora systems that are available from CRAN e.g: for FC4
http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/fc4/

Martyn has also made these available via a yum-compatible repository, so
the benefits you note of auto-notification of updates etc. apply here as
well.

HTH

G

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