On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 08:17:06AM -0500, Troy Dawson wrote: > Eva Myers wrote: > > > >Now a few more minor issues and questions: > > > >SL5 does not include the latest version of R. Which of the R rpms at > >http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/ would be appropriate? There is no > >RHEL5 repository there at the moment. Would any of the fedora > >repositories do? > > > > That is on my list of things to do. I messed up on the rpm spec file for > the R that is in SL5, so I might as well just go to the new one, before > everyone get's entrenched with the older one I have in there. > > Anyway, it's on my whiteboard of things to do ... but at the moment, the > whiteboard is extremely full.
Thank you! I was only asking because R updates so rapidly that the only way to keep up with the latest version seems to be to use the Bristol repository, and as we are a statistics department there is often demand for the very latest R. > >The default Gnome background with the picture of the atom seems to > >have disappeared, which was a bit surprising when I first tried out > >the SL5 machine. Also, the Inbox Monitor applet has vanished and > >presumably been replaced by xbiff, so I'll need to work out how xbiff > >can be made to run for all users when they log in. > > > > What do you mean that the default background "disappeared"? On a SL5 > machine, you should have what I call a "grey swirl atom". That dissapeared? I think this is an issue with switching between SL4 and SL5 machines and having the same home directory on both machines. When no-one is logged into the SL5 machine, or when root is logged in, the background is the grey swirl atom. When I log into the SL4 machine, the background is a slightly different atom (with the nucleus in the top right corner of the screen) - under Preferences/Desktop Background it is simply called Default. When I log into the SL5 machine, the background is plain white. If, on either machine, I select a background like Flower Garden which exists under both SL4 and SL5, then it will show up if I log into the other machine. Eva.
