[R] Cannot update packages on F8

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Marc Schwartz
<marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
>  > I have just updated R to the version 2.6.2 on F8 (with the official F8
>  > rpm). However, when running as root the following command:
>  >
>  > update.packages(checkBuilt=T)
>  >
>  > I get a bunch of errors like the ones below. Any ideas?
>
>    # yum install R-devel
>
>  should do what you need. If you install via RPMS, in order to
>  install/compile CRAN packages from source, you also need the headers and
>  related files, which are in the 'devel' RPMS.
>
>  This is also the case for other applications on RH/FC/F Linux.
>
>  If you use:
>
>    yum list R-*
>
>  you will see the other R related RPMS that are available via the Fedora
>  repos.

Thanks, Marc. That did the trick. However, it is strange because

yum update

did the update of R, and, before this R update,  'update.packages' worked fine.

Paul