Well, the INSTALL _script_ is for installing packages. But the top-level INSTALL file says
'This document concerns building and installing R from sources. Pre-made binaries are made available for some systems with varying regularity and can be obtained from CRAN (see the RESOURCES file). The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file `doc/html/R-admin.html'. Please read that before installing R. But if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to resolve any problems. (If you obtained R using Subversion, the manual is at doc/manual/R-admin.texi.)' The cited manual does tell you how to install R in other places. For example, ./configure --prefix=$HOME/R make make install will install into ~/R. (Since ~ is not an sh concept, you do need to use $HOME.) There is a lot more detail in the manual, and you can even install to a different place once R is built. On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Daniel Oberski wrote: > Dear all, > > > I am trying to install R on a (Linux Debian) machine where I do not > have root access. So far I succeeded in compiling from source and > running R. > > But I would really like to be able to use "make install" and to be > able to install certain packages such as foreign. Now these actions > require permissions for directories that I do not have. > > In particular I would like R home to be ~/bin/R, the libraries to > reside in ~/lib, and so on. > > I looked in the INSTALL script and it would seem to be possible to > accomplish this by editing INSTALL.in, running ./configure and > make-ing again. But the INSTALL.in file is rather daunting and I do > not know which variables I need to change... > > Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated here. > > > Best regards, > > Daniel -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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.