CentOS

I know that yum install epel-release --enablerepo=extras and then yum install R would be the easiest way to go and I have used this in the past. I really want to learn how to successfully build R from source on a CentOS6 machine and addressing the zlib issue is important for me. Is it possible to up...

I am building R statistics from source and it needs a version of zlib greater than 1.2.5.

I am trying to update to zlib-1.2.11. I downloaded and configured zlib as root using the code below. However, if I get the info of the version installed via yum info zlib I am getting version 1.2.3. What am I doing wrong? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Input: wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.11...