[Fedora-r-devel-list] R-java and R-java-devel

[Pierre-Yves]

On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 22:04 -0400, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> There are several advantages to these metapackages:
> 
> 1. Users who want an R install that comes with the Fedora OpenJDK
> preconfigured can yum install R-java.
> 2. Developers who want an R development environment that has the Fedora
> OpenJDK preconfigured can yum install R-java-devel.
> 3. It does not change the default behavior of the R-core, R-devel (and
> R) packages.
> 4. Any addon R modules that require java to be present and configured
> can now use BuildRequires: R-java-devel and be built for Fedora in koji.
> 
> If you have any questions about this change, please feel free to ask! :)

While we are at this, could we add something in /etc/profile.d/ to set
R_HOME to /usr/lib{64}/R ?

I can also include it in R-rJava to make user's life easier :)

Thanks,
Regards,

Pierre