Hi All: I've been trying to install R-devel on my ubuntu 14.04 machine by following the directions at this link.
http://singmann.org/installing-r-devel-on-linux/ The link is extremely clear and detailed but I run into an odd problem. When I run the script at the bottom of this ( which I call build-R-devel ), the following directory structure gets created. :/usr/local/lib/R> dir total 56 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 doc/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 etc/ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 share/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 include/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 bin/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 lib/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 modules/ drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 4096 Nov 11 05:30 library/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 Nov 11 05:30 SVN-REVISION -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18011 Nov 11 05:30 COPYING :/usr/local/lib/R> Yet, the --prefix in the configure command says to create /usr/local/lib/R-devel directory. This causes problems because it ends up looking like I want the R-devel version to be my regular R version. so when I type bash R-devel.sh CMD check --as-cran package_xxx.tar.gz that uses the development version of R> but, if I type R CMD check --as-cran package_xxx.tar.gz, that also uses the development version of R. I essentially lose my ability to access the regular version of R even though it is sitting in /usr/lib/R. I think it has to do with the build-R-devel script installing /usr/local/lib/R rather than /usr/local/lib/R-devel but I don't know why it does that. In the script, the configure command uses --prefix which is R-devel but I'm not so experienced with these things so it could be something obvious, I hope ??? I don't know how to debug such a long process with tons of output ? I've spent about 2 days on this, deleting the resulting directories from the build of R-devel and trying over and over again so any insights are REALLY, REALLY appreciated. Thanks a lot. Mark my build-r-devel.sh file #========================================================== ## ~/bin/build-R-devel #!/bin/sh cd ~/research/svn/R-devel-build R_PAPERSIZE=letter R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore" R_BROWSER=xdg-open PAGER=/usr/bin/pager PERL=/usr/bin/perl R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr LIBnn=lib AWK=/usr/bin/awk CC="ccache gcc" CFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic" CXX="ccache g++" CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic" FC="ccache gfortran" F77="ccache gfortran" MAKE="make -j4" ../r-devel/R/configure --prefix=/usr/local/lib/R-devel --enable-R-shlib --with-blas --with-lapack --with-readline --with-recommended-packages #CC="clang -O3" #CXX="clang++ -03" #make svnonly make echo "*** Done -- now run 'make install'" make install echo "*** All Done -- start R-devel with 'bash R-devel'" [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
