Karanbir Singh wrote:

Allison Maury wrote:

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Hi everyone,

I'm a newbie and interested in installing the R statistics package on a Centos-4 machine using yum, if possible. From the R website, I see that I can download an rpm for rhel 4. I don't know if the equivalent exists for Centos. I did look through the list that 'yum list available' yields and didn't seem to find a package for R.

Can you recommend how best to install R? Should I install the rhel 4 binary or should I compile from source? How do I use yum to install a downloaded rpm? etc.

These should work :

http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/el4/i386/

there is yum metadata there for you to add as a yum repo.

Thanks! I've got it installed. I did have to set gpgcheck=0 since it was an unsigned package. I read that that's not good practice. Should I have done something different that would have made things more secure?