Gavin Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
Not in EL4 on CRAN master, as far as I can see... It's not only volunteer time that matters. They also need access to a machine that runs the OS version in question, which I suspect could be the issue here. -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Øster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ [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
