Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rainer, On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:06:20 +0200 Rainer M Krug wrote: > Thanks a lot for the offer - that would be great. I will set it up the > same way on m y PC with Xubuntu. Script is attached. Ignore the comments at the beginning they are there just to remind me what ./configure line I us

Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Rainer, > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:53:12 +0200 > Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> > What flavour of Linux are we talking about? >> >> Sorry - I am running SuSE on the machine where I need it. > > Sorry, I am not familiar with that flavour;

Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rainer, On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:53:12 +0200 Rainer M Krug wrote: > > What flavour of Linux are we talking about? > > Sorry - I am running SuSE on the machine where I need it. Sorry, I am not familiar with that flavour; before switching to Debian (and Debian based distributions), I was usi

Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > This is really an R-devel question. sorry about the wrong list. > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I want to install some versions of R simultaneously from source on a >> computer (running Linux). Some programs

Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Wacek Kusnierczyk
Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > This is really an R-devel question. > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I want to install some versions of R simultaneously from source on a >> computer (running Linux). Some programs have an option to specify a >> suffix for the executable (eg R w

Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
This is really an R-devel question. On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi I want to install some versions of R simultaneously from source on a computer (running Linux). Some programs have an option to specify a suffix for the executable (eg R would become R-2.7.2 when the suffix is spec

Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Berwin A Turlach wrote: > G'day Rainer, > > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:34:11 +0200 > Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> I want to install some versions of R simultaneously from source on a >> computer (running Linux). [...] > > What flavour of Linux are we talking about?

Re: [R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-27 Thread Berwin A Turlach
G'day Rainer, On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:34:11 +0200 Rainer M Krug wrote: > I want to install some versions of R simultaneously from source on a > computer (running Linux). [...] What flavour of Linux are we talking about? > If it is not, how is it possible to have several versions of R on one > c

[R] Installing different versions of R simultaneously on Linux

2009-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi I want to install some versions of R simultaneously from source on a computer (running Linux). Some programs have an option to specify a suffix for the executable (eg R would become R-2.7.2 when the suffix is specified as "-2.7.2"). I did not find this option for R - did I overlook it? If it i