[R] how to uninstall R

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

It is not actually necessary to install R: see the R-admin manual.

It is a very bad idea to install to use the source tree.  Just build in a 
directory != srcdir, as the R-admin manual explains.

You have read _all_ the R-admin manual, haven't you?  Just in case you 
haven't, please do as you are asked in INSTALL ...

  The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation
  and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file
  `doc/html/R-admin.html'.  Please read that before installing R.  But
  if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to
  resolve any problems.

!

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Bai Yan wrote:

> On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Bai Yan wrote:
> > >
> > > It cannot work.
> > >
> > > %make uninstall
> > > make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'.  Stop.
> >
> > Well, you did a make distclean before, hence you Makefile has been
> > deleted.
> > It's generally a bad idea to have identical source path and installation
> > path, whcih appoears to be the case looking at your other mail on
> > R-Help.
> >
> 
> 
> I was worrying about the disk place, since I don't have much left. I
> thought using the same path might save some - because some source files
> are actually copied to installation directory, maybe this is wrong. please
> correct me!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Yan Bai
> 
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