Dear R users,
besides the current R 2.14 I would like to install a second version of R (2.12.2) on my Ubuntu system. The current version is easily installed as a precompiled package from Cran but I am heavily fighting with the older version. I tried to follow the instructions here: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html Unfortunately I got totally confused by all the different locations of the script, the library and the rest of the program. As I understand these all have to be different from the ones of the R 2.14 installation. In case anybody could point me to some nice instructions, fell welcome to do so. Otherwise we would need to check what went wrong during my try. I finally managed to install R.2.12.2 but, as it seems, without Java correctly set up and without tcltk support (both are needed). r-base-dev is installed. This I what I did: 1. downloaded R.2.12.2.tar.gz from Cran 2. tar -xzf R-2.12.2.tar.gz 3. sudo cp R-2.12.2 /usr/lib 4. cd /usr/lib/R.2.12.2 5. mkdir prog 5. sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin 6. sudo make prefix=/usr/lib/R-2.12.2/prog rhome=/usr/lib/R-2.12.2/library 7. sudo mv /usr/bin/R /usr/bin/R-2.12.2 Most probably these two arguments for make are not correct as I did not fully understand the instructions here. Additionally I would need to facilitate tcl/tk and Java. Both works with R.2.14 so their dependecies should be installed but I probably need some more arguments during the build for that. Also this renaming of the R script seems arkward to me but I did this to easily run "R-2.12.2" or "R-2.14" from the command line. Does anybody have any advice on how to fix this stuff? Thanks for your help! Jannis ______________________________________________ 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.
