[R-sig-Fedora] Install R on Redhat EL6.5 without internet - issue

[Pai]

Hello Shankar,

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:44:14PM +0530, Shankar Pandey wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Sorry if this email does not concern you, but I needed help to install R
> and R-Studio on a Redhat Linux Enterprise Server WITHOUT Internet
> connection.

Ok. I have done that a while back.

> 
> I have a Mac and can scp rpm packages to the RedHat server.
> I have gone through almost all of the options that google returned but none
> helped me.
> 
> Even after installing the EPEL package, i get the following error :
> "Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: HDP-2.3.
> Please verify its path and try again "
> 
> I can see that the EPEL package did install on the server but the YUM
> command is not able to find the EPEL repo.
> 

IIRC, I needed to install R-core, R-core-devel packages
before installing Rstudio. From your Mac, pls see
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/r/

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