Revolution R on CentOS 6
Discovery at Hadoop World
One of the most interesting talks I attended at Hadoop World was by Revolution Analytics.
A couple of months ago they released a set of open-source packages to Github which marries their 'R' statistical programming language to the power of Hadoop. As well as running R programs across Map/Reduce it includes support to work with datasets stored in HDFS and HBase.
Installation Attempt
Today I had the pleasure of installing it on our 'petunia' cluster. I grabbed the 'Revolution R Community' edition from the website and set about installing it.
They provide a RHEL-friendly download, I'm on CentOS 6 so I didn't foresee any big issues.
Dependency Analysis
The good news is that CentOS 6 has most of the dependencies needed, to be exact the following were all fine:
bzip2-devel-1.0.5-7.el6_0.x86_64 cairo-devel-1.8.8-3.1.el6.x86_64 cloog-ppl-0.15.7-1.2.el6.x86_64 compat-libgfortran-41-4.1.2-39.el6.x86_64 compat-readline5-5.2-17.1.el6.x86_64 cpp-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 fontconfig-devel-2.8.0-3.el6.x86_64 freetype-devel-2.3.11-6.el6_0.2.x86_64 gcc-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 gcc-c++-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 gcc-gfortran-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 gcc-objc-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 glibc-devel-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.x86_64 glibc-headers-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.x86_64 kernel-headers-2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 libgfortran-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 libICE-1.0.6-1.el6.x86_64 libICE-devel-1.0.6-1.el6.x86_64 libjpeg-6b-46.el6.x86_64 libjpeg-devel-6b-46.el6.x86_64 libobjc-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 libpng-devel-1.2.44-1.el6.x86_64 libSM-1.1.0-7.1.el6.x86_64 libSM-devel-1.1.0-7.1.el6.x86_64 libstdc++-devel-4.4.4-13.el6.x86_64 libtiff-3.9.4-1.el6_0.3.x86_64 libtiff-devel-3.9.4-1.el6_0.3.x86_64 libX11-devel-1.3-2.el6.x86_64 libXau-devel-1.0.5-1.el6.x86_64 libxcb-devel-1.5-1.el6.x86_64 libXdmcp-1.0.3-1.el6.x86_64 libXdmcp-devel-1.0.3-1.el6.x86_64 libXext-1.1-3.el6.x86_64 libXext-devel-1.1-3.el6.x86_64 libXmu-1.0.5-1.el6.x86_64 libXmu-devel-1.0.5-1.el6.x86_64 libXrender-devel-0.9.5-1.el6.x86_64 libXt-1.0.7-1.el6.x86_64 libXt-devel-1.0.7-1.el6.x86_64 mpfr-2.4.1-6.el6.x86_64 ncurses-devel-5.7-3.20090208.el6.x86_64 pixman-devel-0.18.4-1.el6_0.1.x86_64 pkgconfig-0.23-9.1.el6.x86_64 ppl-0.10.2-11.el6.x86_64 python-devel-2.6.5-3.el6_0.2.x86_64 readline-devel-6.0-3.el6.x86_64 xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.4-35.el6.noarch zlib-devel-1.2.3-25.el6.x86_64
The Problem Libraries
However all was not well, the libraries tcl, tk & libicu weren't happy. The latest versions available from CentOS 6 were just too revolutionary and the installer stopped dead in its tracks.
Solution
- Firstly remove the current (CentOS 6) versions:
$ sudo yum erase tcl tcl-devel tk tk-devel libicu libicu-devel
- Prevent yum from updating them by editing
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repoand adding the line to both the[base]and[updates]sections of the file:
exclude=libicu libicu-devel tcl tcl-devel tk tk-devel
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Download the RPM's for those packages direct from your nearest CentOS 5 mirror.
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Install these RPM's manually...
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Re-run the installer, and all should be well!
Related Articles
- The Marriage of Hadoop and R: Revolution Analytics at Hadoop World (revolutionanalytics.com)
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