R help - Oct 2015 - Installing pre-compiled R in Linux

> 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.

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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I couldn't tell from the OP's message what distribution they have
installed. If it is redhat (or a derivative), the extra packages for
enterprise linux (epel) has up-to-date R packages to install with yum. I
have had some minor issues with installing A FEW (mostly GIS related)
packages that were easily solved with google and careful reading of the
error messages.
HTH,

Stephen

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:32 AM, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Peter Dalgaard, Professor,
> Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
> Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
> Phone: (+45)38153501
> Office: A 4.23
> Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com
>
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