[R] Unable to update R software to 3.3.0

[Loris Bennett]

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

> 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.

I wrote too soon:  Today an update to R 3.3.0 for SL6 has been made
available.

Cheers,

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
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