RHOME
Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> writes:
Martyn> R is designed to run from its build directory. But
Martyn> if your sysadmin installs it with "make install" (as
Martyn> root), then the shell wrapper that is installed in
Martyn> /usr/local/bin/R will have R_HOME pointing to the
Martyn> right location (/usr/local/lib/R). Literally moving
Martyn> the build directory to another location is the wrong
Martyn> thing to do.
well, but very easily fixable, and that's what Daniel is asking
for:
The default value of R_HOME is only set in exactly one place,
namely the 'R' shell script; editing that script - once after
the move - is really a piece o'cake.
Hmm, I was about to say the same, but there seems to be unexpected references in other places. find `R RHOME` | xargs grep `R RHOME` /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_HOME_DIR=/usr/lib64/R /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_SHARE_DIR=/usr/lib64/R/share /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/lib64/R/include /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_DOC_DIR=/usr/lib64/R/doc (this doesn't normally happen - a SUSE RPM specialty, or due to configure flag settings?) Once you start building packages, you also have things like viggo:~/>find ~/Rlibrary | xargs grep `R RHOME` Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/rgl/libs/rgl.so matches viggo:~/>find ~/Rlibrary | xargs grep Rlibrary Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/rgl/Meta/hsearch.rds matches Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/ISwR/Meta/hsearch.rds matches Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/mvtnorm/Meta/hsearch.rds matches Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/nlmeODE/Meta/hsearch.rds matches B..... on my laptop I had a hit on one of the Sweave support files too. Most likely these are quite harmless, but all in all I think Martyn has the safest advice: Use "make install", as root (don't forget "umask 022").
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