[R] R rpm for Mandriva 2008.1 ?

Andre Nathan andre at digirati.com.br
Mon Sep 15 19:11:31 CEST 2008


On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 16:59 +0100, Paul Bivand wrote:
> The problem I have with using the Mandriva package system for R is
> that the base installation is seriously outdated at 2.6.2 (when we are
> now at 2.7.2). The range of packages available through the Mandriva
> repositories is also far from comprehensive.

FWIW there's a 2.7.2 package for the development version of mandriva. It
shouldn't be difficult to build it for 2008.1 from the source RPM.
[ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandriva/devel/cooker/SRPMS/main/release/R-base-2.7.2-1mdv2009.0.src.rpm]

Andre



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