Re: [R] INSTALL.in: Install R to local path?

2008-01-04 Thread Daniel Oberski
Thank you all very much for your swift and useful replies! I know of few software packages where the user support is so good.. I now resolved my problems, there turned out to be two distinct ones. For anybody who might have a similar problem in the future, here are the solutions that worked for

Re: [R] INSTALL.in: Install R to local path?

2008-01-03 Thread Patrick Connolly
On Wed, 02-Jan-2008 at 10:08PM +0100, 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

[R] INSTALL.in: Install R to local path?

2008-01-02 Thread Daniel Oberski
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

Re: [R] INSTALL.in: Install R to local path?

2008-01-02 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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).