-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2016-11ca20b113 2017-01-06 23:22:28.117129 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : R Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 3.3.2 Release : 3.el5 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.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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/htm...
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