Bug 1871685

Summary:	the R in the latest rpm is still 3.6.0, a lot of packages cannot be installed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	yb77639
Component:	R	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <spotrh>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel7	CC:	ignatenko, i.ucar86, mjw, packaging-team-maint, pmoravco, spotrh, vmukhame
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Description yb77639 2020-08-24 03:38:40 UTC

Description of problem:

the R in the latest rpm is still 3.6.0, a lot of packages cannot be installed.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

 https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install rpm, install R (yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum install R)
2.go to R in RH, type "version" - 3.6.0
3. try to install the package of 'mnormt': error massage pops up.

Actual results:


Expected results:
update base R version in rpm, so we can install packages

Additional info:

Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2020-08-24 05:59:53 UTC

Nothing to do with rpm.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2020-08-24 19:15:16 UTC

EPEL-7's toolchain is too old to properly support more recent versions of R. It is possible to build newer R versions using the "devtoolset" toolchains (either v8 or v9), but because of how R works, R assumes it can set the compiler flags to match that toolchain. On EPEL-7, the system toolchain does not support those compiler flags, and thus, R modules installed from CRAN will fail in odd ways.

Since EPEL packages are not permitted to depend upon devtoolset (only build with them), there is no good way to support a current R package for EPEL-7. My recommendation for you is to strongly consider moving to RHEL/CentOS 8, which has none of these issues.