On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hello,
> Before pushing this out, I was hoping that somebody could test the new R 
> package for SL5.  I think it's ok, but it's a new version and since I don't 
> use it, I'm not positive it's correct.  This is R version 2.5.0

First reports are positive in at least that a bunch of 'simple stats 
examples' ran through and gave the expected results.  Tomorrow I hope our 
(fairly) tame statistitian will have time to test it harder.

BTW in the file /usr/lib/R/etc/Renviron there are some changes (between 
2.4.1 and 2.5.0) which I'm not sure I follow.

-R_PLATFORM=${R_PLATFORM-'i386-redhat-linux-gnu'}
+R_PLATFORM=${R_PLATFORM-'i686-redhat-linux-gnu'}

is presumably fair enough if i686 is what the platform claims to be and:

-EGREP=${EGREP-'grep -E'}
+EGREP=${EGREP-'/bin/grep -E'}

is presumably safer but:

-R_ZIPCMD=${R_ZIPCMD-'/usr/bin/zip'}
+R_ZIPCMD=${R_ZIPCMD-''}

makes little or no sense to me and I don't feel qualified to comment on 
the addition of:

+R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER-'~/R/i686-redhat-linux-gnu-library/2.5'}

at all.

Are these all planned/expected changes?

  -- Jon