check out the official document *R Installation and Administration* from https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html There you'll find how to define a specific path for each installation.
(Since a number of years I administrate multiple versions of R at different platforms, of course including Linux) Wolfgang 2015-10-07 9:04 GMT+02:00 Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de>: > Dear Luca, > > Luca Cerone <luca.cer...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Dear all, > > on one shared machine we have an older R version installed. Some packages > > have known issues with that version that are fixed in newer R versions. > > > > Since that is a production machine with many jobs running we would like > to > > keep things as they are. However I would also like to keep advantage of > the > > newest version and the bug fixes introduced. > > > > What would be the best way to install a newer version along the one that > > already exists? Is it possible to install it for a specific user only? > > > > Cheers, > > Luca > > If you are on a Unix-like platform, a standard way of dealing with > multiple versions of a piece of software installed in parallel is > "Environment Modules": > > http://modules.sourceforge.net/ > > Packages for various Linux distributions are available. > > You could make a version available for a specific user by setting > appropriate file permissions of the module file which is used to set up > the environment. However, I would consider this a somewhat unusual > configuration. If you are worried about people using the wrong version > by mistake, you can either have the standard version available without > using modules, or you can define a default version within the modules > setup. > > HTH > > Loris > > -- > This signature is currently under construction. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.