diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/install_packages/install_packages_redhat8.rb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/install_packages/install_packages_redhat8.rb
index b0b799d0f..1774943d5 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/install_packages/install_packages_redhat8.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-platform/resources/install_packages/install_packages_redhat8.rb
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ def default_packages
   #    libical-devel sendmail libxml2-devel libglvnd-devel
   #    libgcrypt-devel libevent-devel glibc-static bind-utils
   #    iproute NetworkManager-config-routing-rules python3 python3-pip iptables libcurl-devel yum-plugin-versionlock
-  #    coreutils moreutils curl environment-modules gcc gcc-c++ bzip2)
+  #    coreutils moreutils curl environment-modules gcc gcc-c++ bzip2) R
   %w(vim ksh tcsh zsh openssl-devel ncurses-devel pam-devel net-tools
      libXmu-devel libdb-devel tcl-devel automake autoconf libtool
-     httpd boost-devel mlocate R atlas-devel
+     httpd boost-devel mlocate atlas-devel
      libffi-devel jq
      libical-devel sendmail libxml2-devel libglvnd-devel
      libgcrypt-devel libevent-devel bind-utils