R installation
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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: "cc:Mail Note Part" 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.) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
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