I don't know the specifics of CentOS, but it is usually possible to build and use a private version of R, and if I read the below correctly, that might even be rather easy.
The price may be that you need to build all packages from source using the same tools that you used for building R. That would probably be only mildly painful. -pd > On 31 Oct 2020, at 11:54 , Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > Please, see spot's comment in the BZ I linked in my previous comment. > The thing is not that it can't be done (you could install a newer > devtoolset, v8 or v9, build R and use it), the thing is that it cannot > be distributed in EPEL, because we're allowed to build against a > devtoolset, but not depend on it, so the distribution would be broken > (you could not install packages unless you know that you need a > specific devtoolset, so you install and activate it). > > On Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 02:05, Evan Cooch <evan.co...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Really? If Iñaki says it can't be done (even using devtools, which I've >> tried), then you need to move on. >> >> On 10/30/2020 8:57 PM, H wrote: >>> On 10/30/2020 05:02 AM, Iñaki Ucar wrote: >>>> Please, do not crosspost. As I said in the Bugzilla issue, R cannot be >>>> further updated in EPEL-7, see >>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1871685#c2. >>>> >>>> Iñaki >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 02:30, H <age...@meddatainc.com> wrote: >>>>> I am running R 4.6 under CentOS 7 but would like to upgrade. Just found >>>>> that 4.0 is available for CentOS 8 but could it be released for CentOS 7 >>>>> as well? >>>>> >>>>> If so, that would be great! >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> R-SIG-Fedora mailing list >>>>> R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora >>>> >>> I see. Is anyone running R 4.0 on CentOS 7? If so, how do you do it? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> R-SIG-Fedora mailing list >>> R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Fedora mailing list >> R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora > > > > -- > Iñaki Úcar > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Fedora mailing list > R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Fedora mailing list R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
