Building R-3.2.0 from source.
On Monday 11 May 2015 19:42:53 Rolf Turner wrote:
It certainly did! Success. Thank you hugely! But if I may ask a supplementary question: You say "If you really want to build from source ....". No, I don't *want* to; I have to. At least in my understanding. I run the ancient and beyond end-of-life Fedora 17. (I haven't the nerve to try to upgrade; my current system may be kludgey, but at least it works. And I *know* that if I try to upgrade all hell will break loose.) It is my understanding that "current Fedora releases" *do not* include Fedora 17. Or do they? If so, how would I get my hands on an R binary for Fedora 17?
The list of supported versions is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases In short each version is supported for one month after the release of version N+2. That means in particular that as soon as Fedora 22 is released Fedora will be supported one more month.
That's really just an academic question at present, since I have now managed, thanks to your help, to build R 3.2.0 from source. Thanks again. cheers, Rolf Turner
If you prefer a short release cycle a reasonable approach is CentOS where R is packaged in the EPEL repositories, that belong the Fedora infrastructure. Regards,
Jos? Ab?lio