On Fri, 6 May 2005, Uwe Ligges wrote:
Diaz.Ramon wrote:Dear All,
I've got into the habit of installing R from the precompiled Debian binaries, including many of the packages from the r-cran-* Debian packages, and later building from source (e.g., to link against Goto's BLAS, or to build patched versions, etc). I install the newly built R to the very same place (/usr/lib/R). This allows me to build and update R when I wish, AND provides the ease of quickly updating many packages.
Things have always worked fine, but after a few funny problems (which could be unrelated to the process itself) I've started wondering if this is a rather silly thing to do, and if I should keep my own build separate from the Debian stuff. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Yes, simply install to another directory, e.g. by telling configure:
./configure --prefix=/I/want/to/have/R/installed/here
I don't think that is the point: Ramon must have done that as the default installation place is /usr/local/lib/R.
I think this is a Debian-specific question (there is a R-debian list) and the point may be to make use of the binary Debian packages. I would advocate installing R from the sources into /usr/local, and having
separate directory trees both for packages you install and for Debian packages. Then you can manipulate which packages are seen via R_LIBS.
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