[R-sig-Fedora] Installing R on CentOS 8

[Roger Bos]

I am trying to install R on my CentOS 8 server at work and getting an
error message about openblas.  It seems I need openblas-0.3.3-5.el.x86_64.
I have openblas-0.3.3-2.el8.x86_64.  I have added the EPEL repo and enabled
PowerTools.  I would like to upgrade my openblas from 0..3.3-2 to 0.3.3-5,
but I don't know how.  Or I could install a lower version of R that works
with 0.3.3-2, but I don't know   Could someone please help me get past this
error?

Thanks in advance, Roger.

[RCOAdmin using usd1sapp101 ~]$ sudo yum install R
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Error:
 Problem: package R-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-core-devel =
4.0.5-1.el8, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package R-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires R-devel = 4.0.5-1.el8, but none
of the providers can be installed
  - package R-core-devel-4.0.5-1.el8.x86_64 requires openblas-devel, but
none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides openblas(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
  - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-32) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.i686
  - nothing provides openblas(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
  - nothing provides openblas-threads(x86-64) = 0.3.3-5.el8 needed by
openblas-devel-0.3.3-5.el8.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages or '--nobest' to
use not only best candidate packages)

P.S. I tried --skip-broken and --nobest.  It just skips the packages, so I
still don't get R installed, so skipping is not an option.

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