On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Martyn> R is designed to run from its build directory. But >> Martyn> if your sysadmin installs it with "make install" (as >> Martyn> root), then the shell wrapper that is installed in >> Martyn> /usr/local/bin/R will have R_HOME pointing to the >> Martyn> right location (/usr/local/lib/R). Literally moving >> Martyn> the build directory to another location is the wrong >> Martyn> thing to do. >> >> well, but very easily fixable, and that's what Daniel is asking >> for: >> >> The default value of R_HOME is only set in exactly one place, >> namely the 'R' shell script; editing that script - once after >> the move - is really a piece o'cake. > > Hmm, I was about to say the same, but there seems to be unexpected > references in other places. > > find `R RHOME` | xargs grep `R RHOME` > /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_HOME_DIR=/usr/lib64/R > /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_SHARE_DIR=/usr/lib64/R/share > /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/lib64/R/include > /usr/lib64/R/bin/R:R_DOC_DIR=/usr/lib64/R/doc > > (this doesn't normally happen - a SUSE RPM specialty, or due to > configure flag settings?)
That only happens in the installed copy. Martin is right if one is talking about moving the build tree (and Martyn is right that there is a lot of stuff that does not need to be installed in the build tree and that `make install' takes all the strain of copying the right bits). -- 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 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
