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-rw-r--r--academic/R/R.SlackBuild3
-rw-r--r--academic/R/R.info10
-rw-r--r--academic/R/README22
3 files changed, 20 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/academic/R/R.SlackBuild b/academic/R/R.SlackBuild
index 6646fb5a21..e375a9c6a9 100644
--- a/academic/R/R.SlackBuild
+++ b/academic/R/R.SlackBuild
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
# SlackBuild script for R
+# Copyright 2019 Andrew Payne <phalange@komputermatrix.com>
# Copyright 2014-2017 melikamp, Andrew Rowland. (Contributors are
# listed in order of first participation.)
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@
# <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
PRGNAM=R
-VERSION=${VERSION:-3.5.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-3.5.2}
BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
diff --git a/academic/R/R.info b/academic/R/R.info
index ef0749f60b..4c63e144ac 100644
--- a/academic/R/R.info
+++ b/academic/R/R.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
PRGNAM="R"
-VERSION="3.5.1"
+VERSION="3.5.2"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.r-project.org/"
-DOWNLOAD="https://cran.cnr.berkeley.edu/src/base/R-3/R-3.5.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="8620686bc237cf80288afff336fcc93c"
+DOWNLOAD="https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.5.2.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="3e4b40b2bbd4a2f8133ac45dbef6a485"
DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
MD5SUM_x86_64=""
REQUIRES=""
-MAINTAINER="melikamp"
-EMAIL="melikamp@melikamp.net"
+MAINTAINER="Andrew Payne"
+EMAIL="phalange@komputermatrix.com"
diff --git a/academic/R/README b/academic/R/README
index cd6a7109c8..08f06f94fe 100644
--- a/academic/R/README
+++ b/academic/R/README
@@ -1,21 +1,22 @@
R is an integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation,
-calculation and graphical display. Among other things it has
+calculation and graphical display. It includes
* an effective data handling and storage facility,
* a suite of operators for calculations on arrays, in particular
- matrices,
+matrices,
* a large, coherent, integrated collection of intermediate tools for
- data analysis,
+data analysis,
-* graphical facilities for data analysis and display either directly
- at the computer or on hardcopy, and
+* graphical facilities for data analysis and display either on-screen
+or on hardcopy, and
-* a well developed, simple and effective programming language (called
- `S') which includes conditionals, loops, user defined recursive
- functions and input and output facilities. (Indeed most of the
- system supplied functions are themselves written in the S language.)
+* a well-developed, simple and effective programming language which
+includes conditionals, loops, user-defined recursive functions and
+input and output facilities.
+
+Notes:
If you do not need to build the R shared library (which is needed if
you would like to call R functions from other applications), execute
@@ -24,3 +25,6 @@ the script as R_SHLIB=no ./R.SlackBuild
If you do not need to build the BLAS shared library (which is useful
for swapping default unaccelerated BLAS for an accelerated one),
execute the script as BLAS_SHLIB=no ./R.SlackBuild
+
+This package builds R from source; example build time (Intel Core
+i7-7500U) is < 30 minutes.