[R] Problem Installing R 2.9.1.1 RHEL x86_64 binary

[Gavin Simpson]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 10:55 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote:
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> > What could be the problem?
> 
> Do you have perl(File::Copy::Recursive) or pcre-devel installed? If not,
> 
> yum install perl(File::Copy::Recursive) pcre-devel
> 
> as route in a terminal will install those packages and their
    ^^^^^^

of course I meant 'root' or the superuser.

Time for coffee...

G

> dependencies for you.
> 
> But I suggest you configure the EPEL repository for RHEL (Extra Packages
> for Enterprise Linux) and yum and then you'll be able to install and
> update R just like any other package on your RHEL system, and it would
> resolve the dependencies for you.
> 
> Details on setting up EPEL can be found here:
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
> 
> HTH
> 
> G
> 
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