Have you looked at Environment Modules (http://modules.sourceforge.net/)? I use it to maintain multiple versions of R. Users can choose their default and switch among them at the command line.
Aaron On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 02:04:13PM -0500, Paul Gilbert wrote: > (somewhat related to thread [Rd] R CMD check not reading R_LIBS ) > > For many years I have maintained R versions by building R > (./configure ; make) in a directory indicating the version number, > putting the directory/bin on my path, and setting R_LIBS_SITE. > > It seems only one version can easily be installing in /usr/bin, and > in any case that requires root, so I do not do that. There may be an > advantage to installing somewhere in a directory with the version > number, but that does not remove the need to set my path. (If there > is an advantage to installing I would appreciate someone explaining > briefly what it is.) > > My main question is whether there is a better ways to maintaining > multiple versions, in some way that lets users choose which one they > are using? > > (The only problem I am aware of with my current way of doing this is: > if the system has some R in /usr/bin then I have to set my preferred > version first, which means shell commands like "man" find R's pager > first, and do not work.) > > Thanks, > Paul > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Aaron A. King, Ph.D. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Mathematics Center for the Study of Complex Systems University of Michigan GPG Public Key: 0x15780975 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel