I couldn't tell from the OP's message what distribution they have installed. If it is redhat (or a derivative), the extra packages for enterprise linux (epel) has up-to-date R packages to install with yum. I have had some minor issues with installing A FEW (mostly GIS related) packages that were easily solved with google and careful reading of the error messages. HTH,
Stephen On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 6:32 AM, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 07 Oct 2015, at 13:05 , Jeroen Ooms <jeroen.o...@stat.ucla.edu> wrote: > > >> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Sasikumar Kandhasamy <ckms...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> Thanks a lot Mike. The Linux distribution we use is "Red Hat Enterprise > >>> Linux Server release 6.2". > > > > On RHEL and CentOS the easiest and most reliable way to get R and R > > packages is via EPEL. Simply add the EPEL repositories and from there > > on you can install R and R packages as you would do on Fedora. > > > > Pretty much no Linux distribution expects you to install anything by > "unzipping compiled code". They generally have a packaging format like .rpm > or .deb, and even then you can't mix them freely between different > distributions -- SUSE .rpm are usually not interchangeable with RedHat and > vice versa. You generally access them from curated package repositories > using tools like yum or apt-get. One exception may be Slackware. At any > rate, whereever you got your zipfile from, it is most likely wrong for RHEL. > > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Stephen Sefick ************************************************** Auburn University Biological Sciences 331 Funchess Hall Auburn, Alabama 36849 ************************************************** sas0...@auburn.edu http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 ************************************************** Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis "A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal science." -Robert Gentleman [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.