R-help My thanks goes out to all who responded to this. I am tying to avoid burdening the sysadmin with this project so I opted for the simple fix of modifying the shell script. My aim here is to build the libraries in my local directory and copy those as needed to /usr/local/lib/R/library. I will have to direct the sysadmin in the installation of future versions of R.
Cheers, Dan %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Daniel A. Powers, Ph.D. Department of Sociology University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station A1700 Austin, TX 78712-0118 phone: 512-232-6335 fax: 512-471-1748 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Martyn Plummer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:46 AM To: Peter Dalgaard Cc: Martin Maechler; Daniel A. Powers; [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] RHOME Far be it for me to tell people what they can and cannot do. Perhaps I can rephrase myself in a less inflammatory way. R runs from the build directory as a convenience for developers, so you don't have to reinstall R every time you change something. But for users, the standard mechanism "make install" has a number of advantages over moving the build directory to a publicly accessible location: it is guaranteed to work, you don't have to do any post-hoc editing of files, it takes up a lot less space, about 4.6 times less on my system [EMAIL PROTECTED] r-devel]$ du -sh R 356M R [EMAIL PROTECTED] r-devel]$ du -sh /usr/local/lib64/R 77M /usr/local/lib64/R But if you do want to copy the build directory the, as Martin says, you can edit the file bin/R so that the line that starts R_HOME_DIR points to the correct location, e.g. R_HOME_DIR="/usr/local/lib/R" M. On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 14:48 +0100, 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?) I think this is normal. But the RedHat RPM behaves differently. (because the RPM build process installs into a temporary build root which is distinct from the final installation directory, requiring more sed voodoo). > > Once you start building packages, you also have things like > > viggo:~/>find ~/Rlibrary | xargs grep `R RHOME` > Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/rgl/libs/rgl.so matches > > > viggo:~/>find ~/Rlibrary | xargs grep Rlibrary > Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/rgl/Meta/hsearch.rds matches > Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/ISwR/Meta/hsearch.rds matches > Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/mvtnorm/Meta/hsearch.rds matches > Binary file /home/bs/pd/Rlibrary/nlmeODE/Meta/hsearch.rds matches > B..... > > on my laptop I had a hit on one of the Sweave support files too. > > Most likely these are quite harmless, but all in all I think Martyn > has the safest advice: Use "make install", as root (don't forget > "umask 022"). > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This message and its attachments are strictly confidential. ...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ [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
