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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2016-08541f148f
2017-01-05 03:34:54.091110
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Name : R
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 3.3.2
Release : 3.el7
URL :
http://www.r-project.org
Summary : A language for data analysis and graphics
Description :
This is a metapackage that provides both core R userspace and
all R development components.
R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at
Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide
variety of statistical and graphical techniques (linear and
nonlinear modelling, statistical tests, time series analysis,
classification, clustering, ...).
R is designed as a true computer language with control-flow
constructions for iteration and alternation, and it allows users to
add additional functionality by defining new functions. For
computationally intensive tasks, C, C++ and Fortran code can be linked
and called at run time.
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Update Information:
R now uses openblas instead of the unoptimized blas bundled with R (on all
architectures where openblas is supported). In the previous update, this was
done by symlinking /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so to /usr/lib64/libopenblas.so.0.
While this worked fine for R, it did not work for anything linking to libR.so or
trying to dynload libRblas.so. To resolve this, a new openblas subpackage
(openblas-Rblas) has been added, which contains a copy of openblas built as
libRblas.so (and reporting libRblas.so as its soname). R now depends on
openblas-Rblas on all architectures which support openblas and on all targets
new enough to build openblas (RHEL 7+, Fedora 23+). Older targets or
incompatible architectures use the unoptimized Rblas. If you wish to switch
from the openblas libRblas.so to the R provided blas, simply rename
/usr/lib64/R/lib/libRrefblas.so to /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1392192 - segfault during normal usage
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1392192
[ 2 ] Bug #1404662 - libR.so doesn't contain full path of libRblas.so
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404662
[ 3 ] Bug #1404796 - libRblas.so()(64bit) is needed by package
R-core-3.3.2-2.el5.x86_64
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404796
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update R' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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