R binaries for Fedora 17 --- thanks.
Thanks to everyone who responded and confirmed my hope that I am not such
a complete idiot as I probably am! :-)
Looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and upgrade soon, but.
Psigh!!!
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
I am currently (still) running Fedora 17 --- having not managed to screw
my courage to the sticking place and upgrade.
Even though we are now up to Fedora 20, I think. The traffic on the Fedora
mailing list on the upgrading issue is a bit terrifying.
I would just like to confirm that:
It is ***NOT*** possible to download a binary of R for Fedora 17.
Is this correcct?
My efforts to obtain a binary using yum install resulted in a binary for
version 2.15.2. (Whereas of course the source version available from CRAN
is 3.0.1.
I just wanted to check that I am not doing something stupid (like maybe
using an incorrect repository).
I presume that the latest version of R is available as a binary only for
the last version (or last few versions) of Fedora.
Can anyone confirm my presumption?
No biggie. I can build from source, and indeed have done so. But
downloading a binary is quicker and I'd just like to get straight what the
true state of play is.