On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 19:34 +0200, Ivailo Stoyanov wrote: > Dear Rexperts, > > after building R 2.4.0 from source in a temporary directory (*without* > installation), and subsequently moving the whole source/build tree to > another location, I have noticed that I had to change the variables > R_SHARE_DIR, R_INCLUDE_DIR, and R_DOC_DIR in the wrapper-script > /lib/R/bin/R as to reflect the current situation. > > However, when I try to run the HTML help via help.start() I still get an > error message saying that: > > sh: /tmp/r-project-build/usr/lib/R/share/sh/help-links.sh: No such file > or directory > > Interestingly, the system still tries to search for scripts in > /tmp/r-project-build/, the temporary build directory that clearly isn't > valid now. > > My question is: has the mentioned path become hard-coded in the binaries > or am I > missing some config-file/wrapper script that needs to be edited in order > to reflect the current state? > > Thank you in advance for any hints! > > All the best, > Ivailo
When you "moved" the source/build tree to "another location", did you use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'? The former is the _proper_ way to actually install R, after building from source and this is covered in the R Admin Manual. See: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation HTH, Marc Schwartz ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
