updating/installing R

Hi Inaki,
Your instructions worked perfectly for installing "toolbox" and I
could start R-4.1.1-1 in my local terminal (konsole). However, I can't
seem to build a new version of plotrix:

[root at jimACER jim]# toolbox run --release 35 R CMD build

jimACER://home/jim/R/plotr
ix
Error: directory /home/jim not found in container fedora-toolbox-35
Using /root instead.
During startup - Warning messages:
1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C"
3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C"
4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C"
5: Setting LC_PAPER failed, using "C"
6: Setting LC_MEASUREMENT failed, using "C"
ERROR
cannot change to directory 'jimACER://home/jim/R/plotrix'

I also tried using "localhost" for the loopback server, got the same result.
I'll try building R-4.1.1 from source on my ancient DELL desktop. If I
can get a build I can then check it using --as-cran, cross my fingers
and submit it. I'll get back to you if I'm still stuck. Thanks.

Jim

On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 8:43 AM I?aki Ucar <iucar at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 00:02, Jim Lemon <drjimlemon at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Inaki,
Fedora 34 KDE spin.

When I try to install/upgrade as root using dnf:

[root at jimACER packages]# dnf install R
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                       2.4 kB/s | 3.7 kB
  00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates               5.2 kB/s | 3.6 kB
  00:00
Package R-4.0.5-1.fc34.x86_64 is already installed.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[root at jimACER packages]# dnf upgrade R
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:17 ago on Mon 06 Sep 2021 07:48:38.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

R 4.1 is not available for Fedora 34. Instead, see
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/fedora/#toolbox-container-based-development

When I try to connect to:

https://pagure.io/R/fedora-r-packages

I get the message:

pagure.io
Refused to connect

Should be a temporary issue. But that's just the source of that
document, a git repository, why would you want to access this?

As I used to build R from source, I tried that but couldn't get past
the missing "Intrinsic.h" in configure. I switched to using a newish
laptop (ACER Swift 3) some months ago, so I lost all the tools I had
built up over the years.

Thanks for any tips.

Again (see above) my suggestion is to use toolbox to install R 4.1
from the official repos. No need to compile.

--
I?aki ?car