[CentOS] how to install R statistics package on Centos-4

Wed May 4 14:03:05 UTC 2005
Karanbir Singh <Mail-Lists at karan.org>

Allison Maury wrote:
> 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.

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