Installing R on RHEL 6

Question

my questions is similar to this one - Problems installing R on Linux CentOS 6.3

I installed epel, but when I run yum install R, I get the two dependency problems -

Answer 1

I have the exact same problem and have spent about 3 hours attempting to find a yum repository out there for RHEL 6 that can solve this problem. So far, it appears that whoever added this dependency didn't actually try and install it once they added the dependency. These dependency mappings don't appear to exist anywhere in any repo that I can find.

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So I got frustrated and tried this command

yum install texinfo-tex-4.13a-8.el6.x86_64.rpm

and it worked

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CentALT                                                  |  951 B     00:00     
elrepo                                                   | 2.9 kB     00:00     
epel/metalink                                            |  13 kB     00:00     
epel-testing/metalink                                    |  13 kB     00:00     
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puppetlabs-enterprise-extras                             | 1.9 kB     00:00     
remi                                                     | 2.9 kB     00:00     
rhel-source                                              | 2.5 kB     00:00     
rhel-x86_64-server-6                                     | 1.8 kB     00:00     
rpmforge                                                 | 1.9 kB     00:00     
scl_python27                                             | 2.9 kB     00:00     
scl_ruby193                                              | 2.9 kB     00:00     
Setting up Install Process
Examining texinfo-tex-4.13a-8.el6.x86_64.rpm: texinfo-tex-4.13a-8.el6.x86_64
Marking texinfo-tex-4.13a-8.el6.x86_64.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package texinfo-tex.x86_64 0:4.13a-8.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package       Arch     Version         Repository                         Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 texinfo-tex   x86_64   4.13a-8.el6     /texinfo-tex-4.13a-8.el6.x86_64   387 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       1 Package(s)

Total size: 387 k
Installed size: 387 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
  Installing : texinfo-tex-4.13a-8.el6.x86_64                               1/1 
  Verifying  : texinfo-tex-4.13a-8.el6.x86_64                               1/1 

Installed:
  texinfo-tex.x86_64 0:4.13a-8.el6                                              

Complete!

# yum install R
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This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package R.x86_64 0:3.0.1-2.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: R-devel = 3.0.1-2.el6 for package: R-3.0.1-2.el6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package R-devel.x86_64 0:3.0.1-2.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: R-java-devel = 3.0.1-2.el6 for package: R-devel-3.0.1-2.el6.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: R-core-devel = 3.0.1-2.el6 for package: R-devel-3.0.1-2.el6.x86_64
--> Running transaction check
---> Package R-core-devel.x86_64 0:3.0.1-2.el6 will be installed
---> Package R-java-devel.x86_64 0:3.0.1-2.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
 Package               Arch            Version              Repository     Size
================================================================================
Installing:
 R                     x86_64          3.0.1-2.el6          epel           19 k
Installing for dependencies:
 R-core-devel          x86_64          3.0.1-2.el6          epel           90 k
 R-devel               x86_64          3.0.1-2.el6          epel           19 k
 R-java-devel          x86_64          3.0.1-2.el6          epel           19 k

Transaction Summary
================================================================================
Install       4 Package(s)

Total download size: 147 k
Installed size: 326 k
Is this ok [y/N]: