Rocks 5.4.3 is based on CentOS 5.6 which is practically ancient by now (released Jan 2011).
Either way, when dealing with someone else's cluster its better to not fiddle too much with what is already working.
Here's a not at all elegant way of install R on Rocks 5.4.3
Testing:
Either way, when dealing with someone else's cluster its better to not fiddle too much with what is already working.
Here's a not at all elegant way of install R on Rocks 5.4.3
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/R-core-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/R-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/R-devel-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/libRmath-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/libRmath-devel-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/R-core-devel-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/libssh2-0.18-10.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.nsw.coloau.com.au/epel/5/x86_64/xdg-utils-1.0.2-4.el5.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/xz-devel-4.999.9-0.3.beta.20091007git.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/texinfo-tex-4.8-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/texinfo-4.8-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
sudo yum install R-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm libRmath-devel-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm libRmath-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm R-devel-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm R-core-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm R-core-devel-3.3.2-3.el5.x86_64.rpm libssh2-0.18-10.el5.x86_64.rpm xdg-utils-1.0.2-4.el5.noarch.rpm texinfo-tex-4.8-14.el5.x86_64.rpm xz-devel-4.999.9-0.3.beta.20091007git.el5.x86_64.rpm texinfo-4.8-14.el5.x86_64.rpm
[..]
Total size: 169 M
Downloading Packages:
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Installing : libssh2 1/11
Installing : libRmath 2/11
Installing : texinfo 3/11
Installing : texinfo-tex 4/11
Installing : libRmath-devel 5/11
Installing : xz-devel 6/11
Installing : xdg-utils 7/11
Installing : R-core 8/11
Installing : R-core-devel 9/11
Installing : R-devel 10/11
Installing : R 11/11
Installed:
R.x86_64 0:3.3.2-3.el5 R-core.x86_64 0:3.3.2-3.el5 R-core-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.2-3.el5 R-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.2-3.el5 libRmath.x86_64 0:3.3.2-3.el5 libRmath-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.2-3.el5
libssh2.x86_64 0:0.18-10.el5 texinfo.x86_64 0:4.8-14.el5 texinfo-tex.x86_64 0:4.8-14.el5 xdg-utils.noarch 0:1.0.2-4.el5 xz-devel.x86_64 0:4.999.9-0.3.beta.20091007git.el5
Complete!
Testing:
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