Update:
Please note that I did post a different flavor of this on the Unix & Linux SE, but received no helpful responses in the day before re-posting here. The information from that post that is relevant here is that I first added EPEL 7 to the list of repos using rpm -Uvh which is probably why the EL 7 version of R is being requested.
Anyway, as requested by user Sami Laine, here is the output from cat /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
[epel-debuginfo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Debug
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/$basearch/debug
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-debug-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1
[epel-source]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch - Source
#baseurl=http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-source-6&arch=$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6
gpgcheck=1
And the output from rpm -q epel-release is epel-release-6-8.noarch.
I am trying to install R on a fresh CentOS 6.5 box, but am running into difficulties with dependencies. I added the EPEL 6 repo using rpm, and then ran a yum install R. It aborted with broken dependencies:
---> Package R-core.x86_64 0:3.1.1-3.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libtiff.so.5(LIBTIFF_4.0)(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpng15.so.15(PNG15_0)(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: liblzma.so.5(XZ_5.0)(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libtiff.so.5()(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libquadmath.so.0()(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpng15.so.15()(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libpcre.so.1()(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: liblzma.so.5()(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libicuuc.so.50()(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
--> Processing Dependency: libicui18n.so.50()(64bit) for package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
---> Package R-java.x86_64 0:3.1.1-3.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: java-headless for package: R-java-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64
---> Package texlive-texmf-errata-fonts.noarch 0:2007-7.1.el6 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: liblzma.so.5()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: liblzma.so.5(XZ_5.0)(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libtiff.so.5()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libpcre.so.1()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libpng15.so.15()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libicui18n.so.50()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libquadmath.so.0()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libpng15.so.15(PNG15_0)(64bit)
Error: Package: R-java-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: java-headless
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libicuuc.so.50()(64bit)
Error: Package: R-core-3.1.1-3.el7.x86_64 (epel)
Requires: libtiff.so.5(LIBTIFF_4.0)(64bit)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Not sure why these dependencies are not getting resolved. Also any reason why el7 version is being installed when my CentOS is 6.5?
