It's actually easier than I thought (and perhaps than you described). What Prof. Ripley suggested, combined with the options to the configure script, should make this fairly straight-forward, even with "make install".
Cheers, Andy > From: David Brahm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Andy Liaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What's not clear to me is a good way of keeping two versions of R > > simultaneously (for ease of transition). Can anyone suggest a good > > strategy for doing that on *nix? > > I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll tell you what we do. We > have built /res/R/R-1.6.2, /res/R/R-1.7.1, /res/R/R-1.8.0, > etc. (note we never run "make install"). Anyone who doesn't > want to upgrade (e.g. frozen production code) just hard-codes > one of those paths. Everyone else uses a symbolic link > /res/R/R, which right now points to R-1.7.1 but will change > to R-1.8.0 when we feel we're "ready". > > Just to add another layer of complication, actually we have > another symbolic link /res/R/Rdb, which I ("db") use, because > I like to upgrade faster. So Rdb currently points to > R-1.8.0. Symbolic links are your friend. > -- > -- David Brahm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
