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

Wed May 4 14:43:27 UTC 2005
Allison Maury <alli at pasteur.fr>

Karanbir Singh wrote:

>Allison Maury wrote:
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>>Hi everyone,
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>>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.
>>
>>    
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>These should work :
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>http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/redhat/el4/i386/
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>there is yum metadata there for you to add as a yum repo.
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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?