Offline Install of R on RedHat

Question

I am trying to install R on a RedHat server with no connectivity to the Internet. (sigh)

Initially, I tried with R meta package from EPEL (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL).

Due to dependency requirements, I downloaded dependancies Rcore ,libRmath, etc...

Each time it prompts for a dependency, I download, transfer and install. This takes time and manual effort.

Is there a cleaner way to do this than the manual download, transfer and install of every single dependency?

Note: The server has no internet connection, so yam is not helpful.

Answer 1

Have you thought of simply compiling R from source? I usually do that, and it is relatively painless.

The thing is that when you do the ./configure step you should get a list of all librarires that you need before you issue make.

It might be less of a hazzle than the redhat install you are doing.

Answer 2

I believed we are unable install R without online (unless there was someone download the installer and pass to you). You can refer to Setup ®Studio Server (CentOS/RHEL 7). Hope this helps.

Answer 3

One thing you could do is install R on a server with internet access. Install Rtools.

Then you install all the packages you need with the option destdir of install.packages.

You will then get a folder with all the packages you will need.