[R] Unable to update R software to 3.3.0

[Loris Bennett]

Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi Sunish,
>
> Sunish Kumar Bilandi <Sunish.Bilandi at evalueserve.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Team,
>>
>> I am using RedHat 5 and installed R using YUM, (R version 3.2.3) Now I
>> want to update R version tp 3.3.0, but I am unable to do that, Is
>> there any alternate to do this?
>>
>> Hope to hear from your side.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Sunish Bilandi
>> Business Analyst, CIDA-01
>> Evalueserve
>
> You don't say what the problem is, but I'm running Scientific Linux 6.7,
> which is based on the corresponding version of Red Hat, and have found
> that I cannot install R 3.3.0, because the version of zlib available is
> too old.  R 3.3.0 requires zlib >= 1.2.5, whereas the version in the SL
> repositories is 1.2.3.
>
> So if this is the problem, then you either have to install newer version
> of zlib from source or switch to RH7, which comes with zlib 1.2.7.

I forgot to say that for RH7, R 3.3.0 is available from the EPEL
repository, whereas for RH5 or RH6 you will have to install R from
source.

Cheers,

Loris

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