R 2.11.0 is built now for Fedora and EPEL. It is in "updates-testing".

In accordance with the new policies on Fedora Updates, these new packages will not be pushed as official updates until they either receive positive testing from users, or sit in updates-testing for two weeks.

You can help us test these packages, and move them forward. Here's how:

1. Go to the Fedora Updates web application (its real name is "Bodhi"): https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/

Once you're there, click the login blue box at the top left, and login with your Fedora Account. If you don't have a Fedora Account, you can skip this step.

2. Click on the link for the Fedora R test update that matches your release:

Fedora 11: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-2.0.8-2.fc11,R-2.11.0-1.fc11

Fedora 12: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-2.0.8-2.fc12,R-2.11.0-1.fc12

EPEL-4 (RHEL-4): https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R-2.11.0-1.el4

EPEL-5 (RHEL-5): https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R-2.11.0-1.el5

3. Now, on your Fedora (or RHEL) system, run this command (as root, or with root privs) to install the test update:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update R

That should update R to the test update (if you don't want the full R suite, you can replace "R" in that string with "R-core").

4. Test it! Make sure it does all the things you would expect it to.

5. Go back to the web page for the R update (step 2), and at the bottom, click "Add a comment >>"

(If you didn't login, it will ask you for an email address and make you complete a captcha to make sure you are a unique individual.)

In that text box which opens up, write a little bit about the testing you did and if it works okay for you or not. Then (this is the important part), click the "Works for me" or "Does not work" radio button below it, and click the Add Comment button.

6. That's it! If it worked, you've given that update a +1 karma vote. (If it didn't work, you've given it a -1 karma vote). Now, if three people give a +1, and the package update gets to +3, the Fedora Update system will automatically move the update from testing to a real update, and everyone will get it.

Thanks in advance,

~spot, Fedora/EPEL R maintainer