[R] R installation

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 Brian.O'Gorman at noaa.gov wrote:

> To get R-0.99.0a to execute in a directory other than /usr/local, I've
> had to do the following
> setenv R_HOME /export/trichodon2/R/R-0.99.0a   
> ./configure --prefix=/export/trichodon2/R/R-0.99.0a
> make
> make install
> make check
> add to the path $R_HOME/bin, eg. in my .cshrc
> 
> /export/trichodon2/R/R-0.99.0a is where I gunzip and tar the
> R-0.99.0a.tar.gz on my Solaris 2.7 Unix machine.

All I do to run R from the directory tree in which I unpacked is to
link /export/trichodon2/R/R-0.99.0a/bin/R to somewhere in my path. That is,
I do not set R_HOME and I do not `make install'.  Setting R_HOME will
just cause confusion if there is more than one copy of R around: the 
`R' scripts sets it as required. As an example:

./configure
make
ln -s /export/trichodon2/R/R-0.99.0a/bin/R ~/bin
[optionally, make clean]

You only need to `install' to move the operational parts of the built
sources somewhere else. To install a stable version for public use, I use,
e.g.

./configure --prefix=/packages/R/0.99.0a
make
make install
ln -s /packages/R/0.99.0a/bin/R /usr/local/bin

and then remove the directory in which I unpacked.

In each case `rehash' (I use tcsh/csh) and `R' runs R.

> 
> Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
> > 
> > Brian.O'Gorman at noaa.gov writes:
> > 
> > > --simple boundary
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> > > I've decided to install in R in a directory other than /usr/local, but
> > > I'm having difficulty in setting the correct paths, i.e. PATH or path.
> > > I've set my R_HOME, and sure enough there's a bin and lib directory
> > > there but R just won't execute (something like GUI 'X11' is not
> > > supported. However when R is installed in /usr/local then everything is
> > > OK...Any help or comments appreciated...
> > 
> > The official way is to use --prefix=/path/to/mydir on the configure
> > command before building, but you should be able to get away with
> > altering the relevant line in the startup script (bin/R) which sets
> > R_HOME.
> > 
> > (The error message is admittedly cryptic and comes from checking
> > whether $R_HOME/R.X11 is there. 1.0.0 will have a direct check for the
> > existence of $R_HOME first.)
> > 
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