[R] Installing rpy2 on Red Hat 6

[Larry Martell]

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:

/usr/local/lib64/R/lib/libR.a(CommandLineArgs.o): could not read
symbols: Bad value

and installing from source it fails with:

/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.)