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+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo "Installing the EPEL repo"
+
+yum install epel-release
+
+echo "Updating system and packages list"
+
+yum upgrade
+
+yum update
+
+echo "Installing system dependancies"
+
+yum install man sudo R git libcurl libcurl-devel libxml2 libxml2-devel openssl openssl-devel postgresql postgresql91 postgresql-devel postgresql91-devel libcurl libcurl-devel
+
+echo "Installing R dependancies"
+
+echo "If this step fails, you might need to configure a proxy ? (http_proxy environment var)"
+
+R -e 'install.packages(c("tidyverse", "devtools"), repos = "https://cran.r-project.org")'
+
+echo "Installing R2b2 using devtools"
+
+echo "If this step fails, you might need to configure a proxy"
+
+echo "Alternatively, you can download a local copy and use devtools::install_local to install from file"
+
+R -e 'devtools::install_github("MaximeWack/R2b2")'