The problem is, that the latest GLIBC version that comes with Centos is GLIBCXX_3.4.19. It is not possible to install or upgrade GLIBC to newer version.

> BiocManager::install("EBImage")
Bioconductor version 3.7 (BiocManager 1.30.4), R 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Installing package(s) 'EBImage'
trying URL 'https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.7/bioc/src/contrib/EBImage_4.22.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 12560218 bytes (12.0 MB)
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downloaded 12.0 MB

* installing *source* package ‘EBImage’ ...
** libs
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I"/usr/include/R" -DNDEBUG   -I/usr/local/include   -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -grecord-gcc-switches   -m64 -mtune=generic  -c EBImage.c -o EBImage.o
--- cut ---
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Creating a new generic function for ‘abind’ in package ‘EBImage’
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘EBImage’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/var/R/library/EBImage/libs/EBImage.so':
  /lib64/libstdc++.so.6: version `CXXABI_1.3.8' not found (required by /var/R/library/EBImage/libs/EBImage.so)
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing ‘/var/R/library/EBImage’
* restoring previous ‘/var/R/library/EBImage’