Hi Erin,
On 03/08/2012 08:11 PM, Erin Hodgess wrote:
Hi R People:
I currently have a version on R on a Debian squeeze Linux machine,
which I obtained via "apt-get instal...."
Now I would like to have a second installation of R (for a small
experiment) that I compile myself from the tar file. I'm going to
delete it as soon as the experiment fails, which I think it will.
But anyway, I'm trying to compile this from scratch. The R-2.14.2
direction is in /home/erin/
I want all of the R directories to go to /home/build1, so they don't
interfere with the "real" R.
I think I want to do the following:
cd /home/build1
/home/erin/R-2.14.2/configure --prefix=/home/build1
make
and let it rip.
Is this the right thing to do or am I leaving out something, please?
I feel like I'm leaving something out.
Here is how I generally do this:
1) Download and extract the source.
cd
mkdir src
cd ~/src/
wget http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.2.tar.gz
tar zxf R-2.14.2.tar.gz
2) Compile the 1st instance.
cd
mkdir R-2.14.2-instance1
cd R-2.14.2-instance1
~/src/R-2.14.2/configure # no need to specify --prefix here
make -j2 # use -j4 if you are on a quad core
3) Run the first instance.
cd
R-2.14.2-instance1/bin/R
If you want more than one instance, do 2) and 3) again
for each additional instance (replace R-2.14.2-instance1 by
R-2.14.2-instanceX).
Never do make install!
I must have done this 100 times since I started to work with R,
I always have 3 or more independent instances of R at the same time
on my laptop. They never "interfere" (when you install packages,
everything goes under R-2.14.2-instanceX/library/).
Cheers,
H.
Thanks,
Erin
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