help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
Ivailo Stoyanov wrote:
When you "moved" the source/build tree to "another location", did you
use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'?
No, I haven't used "make install" because I prefer to run R from within the build location.
The former is the _proper_ way to actually install R, after building from source and this is covered in the R Admin Manual. See: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation
AFAIK, the approach of running R from within the build location is fully valid as it is noted at the end of section "2.1 Simple compilation", just above the cited one:
Yes, but then it is not "actually installed".
"... Note: you do not need to install R: you can run it from where it was built."
You can, but note that it doesn't say that you can move the build location afterwards, and in fact, you can not, because of the non-relative pathnames.
All the best, Ivailo