Dear Seija, >>>>> Seija SirkiƤ <seija.sir...@csc.fi> >>>>> on Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:01:05 +0200 writes:
> Hello, > Sorry to bother with you with this, I'll be very brief: How do I communicate to the Rmpfr package that the (correct versions of) mpfr and gmp libraries are somewhere else than its installation assumes? Pointing me to documentation is fine, I haven't been able to find any beyond the README which tells me that sudo apt-getting the libraries should do. That is not an option in my case. Sure. The package has a configure script (auto generated from configure.ac by GNU autoconf). Did you see and study the result of ./Rmpfr/configure --help ? It points you (among other) to arguments --libdir=DIR object code libraries [EPREFIX/lib] --includedir=DIR C header files [PREFIX/include] which I think (but did not check) should be sufficient. I'd work for a solution by 1) manually find the correct way to call that configure script. 2) Once you found that, you should also be able to do this from R by correct setting of the arguments configure.args configure.vars INSTALL.opts of the install.packages() function. As I am *not* an expert on the subject of C compiler / library / include files (aka "headers") tweaking on all the many different platforms, and even more importantly, as this question is of general interest and so its answer is, too, I'm CC'ing to the R-help mailing lsit and ask you to use 'reply to all' such that the topic is kept and dealt with on R-help. I hope you'll enjoy working with the Rmpfr R package, with best regards, Martin Maechler ETH Zurich ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.