R SIG Fedora - Jul 2017 - Installing R 3.4.0 on Red Hat 6

I am trying to install R 3.4.0 on RHEL6. If I look here is it there:

http://mirror.sjc02.svwh.net/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/

I did this:

sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-extras-rpms
wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

Which all worked OK. And then I did:

sudo yum install R

Loaded plugins: dellsysid, product-id, refresh-packagekit, security,
subscription-manager
Setting up Install Process
No package R available.

How can I install 3.4.0?

Thanks!

On 07/21/2017 11:18 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
> I am trying to install R 3.4.0 on RHEL6. If I look here is it there:
>
> http://mirror.sjc02.svwh.net/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/
>
> I did this:
>
> sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
> sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-extras-rpms
> wget https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
> rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
Try this instead:

rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm

You also may want to install from epel-testing, 3.4.1 is in there.

sudo yum --enablerepo=epel-testing install R

~tom

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 07/21/2017 11:18 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
>> I am trying to install R 3.4.0 on RHEL6. If I look here is it there:
>>
>> http://mirror.sjc02.svwh.net/fedora-epel/6/x86_64/
>>
>> I did this:
>>
>> sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-optional-rpms
>> sudo subscription-manager repos --enable rhel-6-server-extras-rpms
>> wget
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
>> rpm epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
>
> Try this instead:
>
> rpm -Uvh epel-release-latest-6.noarch.rpm
That gave me:

package epel-release-6-8.noarch is already installed
> You also may want to install from epel-testing, 3.4.1 is in there.
>
> sudo yum --enablerepo=epel-testing install R
That gave me:

Error getting repository data for epel-testing, repository not found