On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 08:38 -0800, Waichler, Scott R wrote: > R-2.2.1 is still not available for Redhat Linux as an RPM on CRAN. It > is available as an SRPM. Can someone fill me in on why it takes so long > to make RPMs available? I would be happy to help make the RPMs for el4 > and el3 if such help is needed.
Because someone has to volunteer their time to create such things - these are not automatically built by R-Core members. Martyn Plummer has done this for as long as I've been using R... ...Mores the point, though, which CRAN mirror were you looking at? R 2.2.1 was in all the EL3/4 and FC3/4 i386 and x86_64 directories I could be bothered to look at on the UK Bristol mirror for example. G > Regards, > Scott Waichler > Pacific Northwest National Laboratory > scott.waichler _at_ pnl.gov -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
