Installing R on RHEL7

[Larry Martell]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 6:43 PM,  <ken at kirchners.com> wrote:
> It looks like you have the x86_64 version installed and your package wants
> the i686 version installed. What happens if you:
>
> sudo yum install glibc-common-2.17-55.el7.i686

No package glibc-common-2.17-55.el7.i686 available.

>> I am trying to install R on RHEL7. It fails with a lot of messages of
>> this form about different packages:
>>
>> Error: Package: glibc-2.17-55.el7.i686 (base)
>>            Requires: glibc-common = 2.17-55.el7
>>            Installed: glibc-common-2.17-106.el7_2.4.x86_64
>> (@rhel-7-server-rpms)
>>                glibc-common = 2.17-106.el7_2.4
>>            Available: glibc-common-2.17-55.el7.x86_64 (base)
>>                glibc-common = 2.17-55.el7
>>
>> But if I then try to install what it says it wants, I get that the
>> package is already there, e.g.:
>>
>> $ sudo yum install glibc-common-2.17-55.el7.x86_64
>> Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos,
>> subscription-manager
>> Package matching glibc-common-2.17-55.el7.x86_64 already installed.
>> Checking for update.
>> Nothing to do
>>
>> I've googled this, and it seems a lot of folks have had issues doing
>> the R install on RHEL 7. I've found at least 5 different sets of
>> instructions for doing it, but I tried them all and they all fail with
>> different dependencies issues.
>>
>> Has anyone here successfully installed R and can help me?