Tag Archives: R

Installing PL/R on RHEL/CentOS 6 with PostgreSQL 9.4

Posted on March 2, 2016 by The Civilized Cynic

It’s pretty simple, but it involves building software from source and the lack of any explicit documentation for a typical RHEL/CentOS 6 system using the PostgreSQL RPMs was something of a pain in the butt, so here’s the process: First, make sure you take … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting R Package Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Posted on July 17, 2015 by The Civilized Cynic

I thought I’d take the opportunity to work through an example to demonstrate a basic problem-solving method for R on RHEL: When attempting to install the R packages “ggmap” and its dependent package “jpeg,” one might encounter output with the … Continue reading →

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Reconfiguring Java for R

Posted on July 10, 2015 by The Civilized Cynic

If anyone should attempt to create a connection to a database using the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) package in R, that person might encounter something such as the following: > library(RJDBC) Loading required package: DBI Loading required package: rJava > … Continue reading →

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Installing RGtk2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Posted on October 30, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

So after my nice secure installation of R in my environment, I found that my users couldn’t even accomplish the simple (and fundamental) task of installing the RGtk2 package.  The initial attempt met with: * installing *source* package ‘RGtk2’ … … Continue reading →

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Securing R on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Posted on October 26, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Update:  Check out the next post in this series for help with the GTK 2.8.0 dependency requirement for the common R package RGtk2. So, as I wrote earlier, I have a group of users who need to use the statistical … Continue reading →

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Installing R on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6

Posted on October 13, 2014 by The Civilized Cynic

Update:  Be sure to check out the next post in this series:  Securing R on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Some of my users need to be able to run the statistical programming language R on a few systems.  Typically, installing … Continue reading →

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