Hi, I'm having some difficulty installing R on our server which is running RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.2. I'm using RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) and by default it installs R in /usr/bin. Unfortunately due to a very small partition size, I have run out of space in this directory. I was hoping to install R in another location such as /data. I'm wondering if anyone else has run across this issue and knows of anyway around it. Thanks. Darrel
Install Location on Linux Red Hat
2 messages · Darrel Barbato, Marc Schwartz
On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Darrel Barbato wrote:
Hi, I'm having some difficulty installing R on our server which is running RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.2. I'm using RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) and by default it installs R in /usr/bin. Unfortunately due to a very small partition size, I have run out of space in this directory. I was hoping to install R in another location such as /data. I'm wondering if anyone else has run across this issue and knows of anyway around it. Thanks. Darrel
Typically, the RPMs for RHEL/CentOS and Fedora are not relocatable and will only install to the default location. Thus, you will likely need to compile R from source in order to install elsewhere. You should review the R Installation and Administration manual, available online: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html If you require further technical assistance, you should subscribe and post to the R-SIG-Fedora list: https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora HTH, Marc Schwartz