In my production environment, R version got updated from 3.4.1 to 3.5.2. All my production application got affected and down because of this upgrade. We are manually downloading the 3.4.1 version and installing,. but we are facing issues like
checking whether zlib support suffices... configure: error: zlib library and headers are required
we have downloaded the above mentioned lib and referred. Issue is not resolved.
It is for this reason that we strongly recommend you install R from source (or pre-compiled binaries). If you do this, you can have multiple versions of R side-by-side.
If, instead, you install R from yum or apt repositories, you will only have a single version of R.
That's precisely the point - you won't be able to find an rpm for a specific version, because the rpm repositories will generally contain the latest version of R.