Message-ID: <51FC3045.9070502@xtra.co.nz>
Date: 2013-08-02T22:18:45Z
From: Rolf Turner
Subject: R binaries for Fedora 17 --- thanks.
In-Reply-To: <CAEp0rCaGSyd+9LHzhiHUx28hKe4z4emK+znPRmH=k3TYKZkgMQ@mail.gmail.com>
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.