[Fedora-r-devel-list] R 2.9.2 updates are ready

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Aug 28 17:58:39 UTC 2009


On 08/28/2009 11:45 AM, Martyn Plummer wrote:
> Up until now we have been building our own R RPMS for EL4 and EL5 for
> distribution via CRAN.  To be precise, Bob Kinney at Harvard (cc'ed) has
> been building them. Lately I stepped in to rebuild the 32-bit EL4/5 RPMS
> using mock.  
> 
> With R 2.9.1 and R 2.9.2 you have built EPEL RPMS for R at the same time
> as the Fedora ones. Does this mean we can give up building our own?

Sure. It doesn't really take much time for me to do these additional
targets.

> Is it OK for me to grab the EPEL RPMS and put them on CRAN before they
> get pushed to stable? 

Sure, assuming you see no problems with them (and if you do, please let
me know).

~tom




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