[LON-CAPA-admin] R-Formula-1.2.3-3.el9.lc.noarch and R-FactoMineR-1.42-2.el9.lc.noarch causing update problems on Rocky Linux 9.

[Michael Dugdale]

Hi, came across the following trying to dnf update on Rocky Linux 9. Seems R-Formula-1.2.3-3.el9.lc.noarch and R-FactoMineR-1.42-2.el9.lc.noarch are causing problems with updates of other R packages on Rocky Linux 9 (presumably RHEL 9 too, I suppose).

Last metadata expiration check: 1:13:38 ago on Sat 09 May 2026 11:11:06 AM EDT.
Error:
 Problem 1: cannot install both R-core-4.6.0-1.el9.x86_64 from epel and R-core-4.5.3-1.el9.x86_64 from @System
  - package R-FactoMineR-1.42-2.el9.lc.noarch from @System requires R(ABI) = 4.5, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package R-core-4.5.3-1.el9.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package R-FactoMineR-1.42-2.el9.lc.noarch
 Problem 2: package R-core-4.5.3-1.el9.x86_64 from @System requires libRmath(x86-64) = 4.5.3-1.el9, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both libRmath-4.6.0-1.el9.x86_64 from epel and libRmath-4.5.3-1.el9.x86_64 from @System
  - package R-Formula-1.2.3-3.el9.lc.noarch from @System requires R(ABI) = 4.5, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package libRmath-4.5.3-1.el9.x86_64
  - cannot install the best update candidate for package R-Formula-1.2.3-3.el9.lc.noarch
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to use not only best candidate packages)

For now, I’m just using the --skip-broken and --nobest options when updating but wanted to flag this for a future update.

Cheers,
Michael
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