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Offline Install of R on RedHat


I am trying to install R on a RedHat server with no connectivity to the Internet. (sigh)

Initially, I tried with R meta package from EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL).

Due to dependency requirements, I downloaded dependancies Rcore ,libRmath, etc...

Each time it prompts for a dependency, I download, transfer and install. This takes time and manual effort.

Is there a cleaner way to do this than the manual download, transfer and install of every single dependency?

Note: The server has no internet connection, so yam is not helpful.


Solution

  • Have you thought of simply compiling R from source? I usually do that, and it is relatively painless.

    The thing is that when you do the ./configure step you should get a list of all librarires that you need before you issue make.

    It might be less of a hazzle than the redhat install you are doing.