Problems installing R on Linux CentOS 6.2

Question

When installing R on Linux CentOS 6.2 I get the following:

Error: Package: R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64 (/R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64)
           Requires: libtk8.4.so()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64 (/R-core-2.10.0-2.el5.x86_64)
           Requires: libtcl8.4.so()(64bit)

There are several helps out there for this type of error when using CentOS 4 or 5, but not for 6.2. Has anyone found a solution with this OS version? Thanks!

Answer 1

I'd honestly recommend installing epel:

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

and then just doing

yum install R

Answer 2

The above did not work for me. I had to install tcl.

rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install tcl
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install R

Answer 3

Now it is even easier:

yum install epel-release
yum install R