Installing R on RHEL7

[ken at kirchners.com]

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

?

-Ken

> 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?
>
> Thanks!
>
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