Dear Rexperts, after building R 2.4.0 from source in a temporary directory (*without* installation), and subsequently moving the whole source/build tree to another location, I have noticed that I had to change the variables R_SHARE_DIR, R_INCLUDE_DIR, and R_DOC_DIR in the wrapper-script /lib/R/bin/R as to reflect the current situation. However, when I try to run the HTML help via help.start() I still get an error message saying that: sh: /tmp/r-project-build/usr/lib/R/share/sh/help-links.sh: No such file or directory Interestingly, the system still tries to search for scripts in /tmp/r-project-build/, the temporary build directory that clearly isn't valid now. My question is: has the mentioned path become hard-coded in the binaries or am I missing some config-file/wrapper script that needs to be edited in order to reflect the current state? Thank you in advance for any hints! All the best, Ivailo
help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
2 messages · Ivailo, Marc Schwartz
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 19:34 +0200, Ivailo Stoyanov wrote:
Dear Rexperts, after building R 2.4.0 from source in a temporary directory (*without* installation), and subsequently moving the whole source/build tree to another location, I have noticed that I had to change the variables R_SHARE_DIR, R_INCLUDE_DIR, and R_DOC_DIR in the wrapper-script /lib/R/bin/R as to reflect the current situation. However, when I try to run the HTML help via help.start() I still get an error message saying that: sh: /tmp/r-project-build/usr/lib/R/share/sh/help-links.sh: No such file or directory Interestingly, the system still tries to search for scripts in /tmp/r-project-build/, the temporary build directory that clearly isn't valid now. My question is: has the mentioned path become hard-coded in the binaries or am I missing some config-file/wrapper script that needs to be edited in order to reflect the current state? Thank you in advance for any hints! All the best, Ivailo
When you "moved" the source/build tree to "another location", did you use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'? 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 HTH, Marc Schwartz