[R] Installing pre-compiled R in Linux

peter dalgaard pdalgd at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 13:32:25 CEST 2015


On 07 Oct 2015, at 13:05 , Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.ooms at stat.ucla.edu> wrote:

>> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Sasikumar Kandhasamy <ckmsasi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Thanks a lot Mike. The Linux distribution we use is "Red Hat Enterprise
>>> Linux Server release 6.2".
> 
> On RHEL and CentOS the easiest and most reliable way to get R and R
> packages is via EPEL. Simply add the EPEL repositories and from there
> on you can install R and R packages as you would do on Fedora.
> 

Pretty much no Linux distribution expects you to install anything by "unzipping compiled code". They generally have a packaging format like .rpm or .deb, and even then you can't mix them freely between different distributions -- SUSE .rpm are usually not interchangeable with RedHat and vice versa. You generally access them from curated package repositories using tools like yum or apt-get. One exception may be Slackware. At any rate, whereever you got your zipfile from, it is most likely wrong for RHEL.


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