On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Daniel Nordlund wrote: > R-users, > > I am new user of Linux (have been using Win XP Pro) and wanted to > install R. Since I am just beginning to learn Linux I was wondering, > where in the directory structure do users of Linux usually install R? > Most of the instructions I have read simply say to untar the tarball > where you want to install the program. Any suggestions would be welcome > as to an appropriate place. I know I could get an rpm, but wanted to > use this as a learning process for a variety of skills. Currently > working with SuSE 9.1
There is a definitive set of instructions, in the file INSTALL in the tarball and at https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/INSTALL Unpacking and installing are separate operations. There is more information in the R-admin manual (which you already have in a Windows version of R, and is also in the tarball). What most of us do is to untar in any convenient place (I use ~/R), use configure, make, and then use 'make install' to >install< R. This installs in /usr/local in the conventional subdirectories (and conventionally needs su to access). Having installed, you can wipe out the unpacked version of the tarball. So, in my example cd ~/R tar zxf R-2.2.1.tar.gz cd R-2.2.1 configure make make info pdf su make install install-info install-pdf [leave su shell] cd .. rm -rf R-2.2.1 Rehash and start R. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html