R installation on red hat 5

[Georgios Magklaras]

On 07/22/2010 04:16 PM, shaohua.fan wrote:
> Hi, all,
> I want to know how you install the R package in Red Hat 5.
>
> I tried to use "yum install R" but it does not work. I downloaded the
> rpm from CRAN. But when I try to install it, it repeatly report
> "perl(File::Copy::Recursive) is needed by R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64"
> is required, although I have install the File::Copy::Recursive in the
> system.
>
>
> Thanks !
>
> Shaohua Fan
>
>    
I normally compile from source, but if you really wish to use yum, you 
can by enabling the EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) 
repository in your RHEL 5 system:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL

Assuming your architecture is x86_64, this is the package:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/repoview/R.html

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The Biotechnology Center of Oslo
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