R gives us a number of perl provides: perl(File::Copy::Recursive) = 0.31 perl(Text::DelimMatch) = 1.01 This, understandably, confuses apt/yum: Package perl(File::Copy::Recursive) is a virtual package provided by: perl-File-Copy-Recursive 0.35-1.fc7 R 2.6.0-1.fc7 R.32bit 2.6.0-1.fc7 You should explicitly select one to install. Given that these modules are installed by R, but to non-standard directories, I'm of the opinion they should be filtered. (Especially when perl-File-Copy-Recursive works just fine for me :))
And we might consider filing bugs with upstream to just use the system-provided versions of those modules unless there's a really good reason not to.
Looks like spot fixed this, but there isn't anything else in the distro that provides perl(Test::DelimMatch) and so R can't be installed.
I fixed that mistake this morning, sorry for the problem.
R-2.6.0-3.fc7.1 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.