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The installed version is 3.3.0.
I would like to install version 2.X but I don't know how.
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Are you building from the tar.gz file? If so, you should be able to download any version you like, here's a folder with the files for 2.x versions:
https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/
EDIT to add:
You can try installing like so, in your shell terminal. (this should work in, for example, Debian, but please read on for the OP's solution in CentOS).
wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.15.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf R-2.15.3.tar.gz; cd R-2.15.3/
./configure; make; sudo make install
ADDED from OP, who found a CentOS solution:
Thanks to @resscova's answer and some research on the net. Here's how to install R-2.X.tar.gz on Centos :
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install ncurses-devel zlib-devel texinfo gtk+-devel gtk2-devel qt-devel tcl-devel tk-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel
./configure --with-x=no
make
make install
Thanks to @resscova's answer and some research on the net. Here's one way install R-2.X.tar.gz on Centos:
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install ncurses-devel zlib-devel texinfo gtk+-devel gtk2-devel qt-devel tcl-devel tk-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel
./configure --with-x=no
make
make install
I installed R-3.3.3 with sources - https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.3.3.tar.gz on CENTOS 7 after xlsx library stops working with R-3.4.1
These are the steps I took for successful Installation of R 3.3.3
wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.3.3.tar.gz
tar xvzf R-3.3.3.tar.gz
cd R-3.3.3
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install ncurses-devel zlib-devel texinfo gtk+-devel gtk2-devel qt-devel tcl-devel tk-devel kernel-headers kernel-devel readline-devel
./configure --with-x=no
make
sudo make install
Make sure to install readline-devel otherwie you may have to use --with-readline=no while configuring make file.
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