[R] Installing rpy2 on Red Hat 6

[Larry Martell]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:53 AM, Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I need to install rpy2 on RHEL6. The version of R in the 6 repos is
>> 3.0, and rpy2 does not work with that version. I installed R 3.3.3
>> following the directions here:
>> https://oguya.ch/posts/2017-03-18-building-R-on-rhel-6/. But even with
>> 3.3.3 it's still failing. Using pip it fails with:
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>> /usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libR.a(CommandLineArgs.o): could not read
>> symbols: Bad value
>>
>> and installing from source it fails with:
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>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lr_utils
>>
>> Anyone know how I can get rpy2 working on RHEL6?
>>
>> (I did post to the rpy mailing list and also on SO, but did not get
>> any answers.)
>>
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> Hi,
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> For future reference, posts regarding R and RHEL/Fedora and derivatives should to go R-SIG-Fedora:
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>   https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora

Sorry, I did not know about that list. I have subscribed and I will
move the discussion there.

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> From looking at the EPEL repo for RHEL 6:
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>   http://mirror.sjc02.svwh.net/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/
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> there are R 3.4.0 RPMS there since May. So:
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>   sudo yum install R
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> should get you R 3.4.0 if you have the EPEL repos properly configured.
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> From a review of the rpy2 page, it would seem that 3.2+ should be ok. If so, I would recommend installing the R RPMS for 3.4.0 from the EPEL and save yourself the hassle and potential issues of building from source.