[R-sig-Fedora] Installing R 3.4.0 on Red Hat 6

[Tom Callaway]

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