[R-sig-Fedora] RStudio package maintenance moved to Copr

[Iñaki Ucar]

On Tue, 24 Sept 2024 at 14:51, Tim Taylor
<tim.taylor using hiddenelephants.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Many thanks Iñaki.
>
> Will Quarto get pulled in from your COPR automatically as well or do we
> need to specifically install it before/after?

Quarto is pulled automatically from there as a dependency.

> Also is it worth updating the "add ons" section at
> https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/fedora/ as well?

I sent an update to CRAN. Will appear soon.

Iñaki

>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On 24/09/2024 12:51, Iñaki Ucar wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > With the latest release of RStudio last week (v2024.09.0+375), support for
> > Qt builds has been removed. This means that we can no longer maintain
> > RStudio packages in the official Fedora repositories, because the necessary
> > Electron component is missing. RStudio is supported in the official
> > repositories up to v2024.04.2+764 and F40, and has been retired from newer
> > branches.
> >
> > Consequently, I moved maintenance to Fedora Copr, where I have more
> > flexibility. You can find an up-to-date Electron build in the iucar/rstudio
> > Copr repository [1], available for F39 and later, for x86_64 and aarch64.
> > Installation instructions are provided there. Upgrading from the official
> > repos to this new one should work without issue.
> >
> > [1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
> >
> > Best,
>


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Iñaki Úcar