[R] Installing different R versions

[Luca Cerone]

Dear Loris and Wolfgang,
thanks a lot for the help!

I wasn't aware of the module project. I'd rather use the "official"
way of having co-existent R versions in this case,
but is a good tool to know!

Thanks again for the help!

Cheers,
Luca

On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Wolfgang Raffelsberger
<wolfgang.raffelsberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> check out the official document
> *R Installation and Administration*
> from https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html
> There you'll find how to define a specific path for each installation.
>
> (Since a number of years I administrate multiple versions of R at different
> platforms, of course including Linux)
>
> Wolfgang
>
> 2015-10-07 9:04 GMT+02:00 Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>:
>
>> Dear Luca,
>>
>> Luca Cerone <luca.cerone at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Dear all,
>> > on one shared machine we have an older R version installed. Some packages
>> > have known issues with that version that are fixed in newer R versions.
>> >
>> > Since that is a production machine with many jobs running we would like
>> to
>> > keep things as they are. However I would also like to keep advantage of
>> the
>> > newest version and the bug fixes introduced.
>> >
>> > What would be the best way to install a newer version along the one that
>> > already exists? Is it possible to install it for a specific user only?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Luca
>>
>> If you are on a Unix-like platform, a standard way of dealing with
>> multiple versions of a piece of software installed in parallel is
>> "Environment Modules":
>>
>> http://modules.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Packages for various Linux distributions are available.
>>
>> You could make a version available for a specific user by setting
>> appropriate file permissions of the module file which is used to set up
>> the environment.  However, I would consider this a somewhat unusual
>> configuration.  If you are worried about people using the wrong version
>> by mistake, you can either have the standard version available without
>> using modules, or you can define a default version within the modules
>> setup.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Loris
>>
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