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Vincent Warmerdam edited comment on SPARK-8684 at 6/28/15 9:52 AM:
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I'll double check. I've done this before but I recall it was always a bit
messy. Do we prefer using yum or is installing from source also a possbility?
What centos version will we use? I just worked up a quick server from digital
ocean with centos 7 and this seems to work just fine:
```
[root@servy-server ~]# yum install -y epel-release
[root@servy-server ~]# yum update -y
[root@servy-server ~]# yum install -y R
[root@servy-server ~]# R
R version 3.2.0 (2015-04-16) -- "Full of Ingredients"
Copyright (C) 2015 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
```
The downside of YUM is that it is not always up to date (the latest version is
3.2.1). This version of R should allow almost all Rstudio packages to just go
and work out of the box.
Depending of which version of CentOS we use, getting epel might be a problem.
In the past this made it more practical to just go and install R from source.
This is not too terrible, it can be done this way:
```
[root@servy-server ~]# wget http://cran.rstudio.com/src/base/R-3/R-3.2.1.tar.gz
[root@servy-server ~]# tar xvf R-3.2.1.tar.gz
[root@servy-server ~]# cd R-3.2.1
[root@servy-server ~]# ./configure --prefix=$HOME/R-3.2 --with-readline=no
--with-x=no
[root@servy-server ~]# make && make install
```
The main downside is that this will take a fair amount of time.
was (Author: cantdutchthis):
I'll double check. I've done this before but I recall it was always a bit
messy. Do we prefer using yum or is installing from source also a possbility?
> Update R version in Spark EC2 AMI
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: SPARK-8684
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8684
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: EC2, SparkR
> Reporter: Shivaram Venkataraman
> Priority: Minor
>
> Right now the R version in the AMI is 3.1 -- However a number of R libraries
> need R version 3.2 and it will be good to update the R version on the AMI
> while launching a EC2 cluster.
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