How to install R language version 4 in AWS EMR - Amazon linux 2

Question

We have an AWS EMR cluster. By default it comes with

Amazon Linux version 2
R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30) -- "Kite-Eating Tree"

I like to install latest R version 4. .

Tried following:

yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
yum -y install R

But it doesn't upgrade R version to v4.0. It only offers to upgrade it to 3.4.3-1.amzn2.0.1

Amazon Linux 2 - uses EPEL version 7. EPEL v7 doesn't seem to have R v4. But EPEL version 8 has R v4

I am planning to install R from source. But like to know if this is a way to install binary.

Is there any option to install latest R binary on AWS Linux 2?

Answer 1

Found a way to install the R v4 binary from AWS extras repo

sudo amazon-linux-extras install R4

In future, if some one is hunting for AWS Linux specific software package., this command list the packages that can be installed from AWS extras

amazon-linux-extras list

Reference - Amazon Linux User Guide

Answer 2

1. Install miniconda https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html
2. conda install r-base or conda install r-essentials