Hi Søren,
On 8 August 2012 at 20:38, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
| Dear List,
|
| Having used R on Windows for years, I have recently installed Ubuntu as a
virtual machine. I admit that I am quite new to the linux world.
Good :) It's even better once you "host" on Linux as Linux is generally
better with limited resources.
| Installing R (current version = 2.15.1) went smoothly, but I would like to
have both the current version of R and R-devel installed. I've searched the net
for info on doing this but so far without luck.
I hope you found the README on CRAN to get you the prebuilt version. That is
the way many of us find most convenient to get "r-release" up and going.
| Can anyone help me getting this up and running?
|
| A related question: How do I upgrade the current version of R to the patched
versions?
R-devel and R-patched can only be had from source, and not from a .deb
because I never reorganised the packaging to allow for multiple versions.
But because CRAN makes us check against R-devel, it is of use to have it. So
I keep a svn checkout and every few weeks build locally via a little script
which carries over a few of the configuration choices I make for the Debian /
Ubuntu package (plus memory debugging from when Doug and I were chasing
something). Followed by 'make install', this puts R into /usr/local/lib/R-devel
which is then completely off the PATH and does not affect normal R.
I then use this via a second script ~/bin/R-devel.sh which calls it. Also
below.
Hope this helps, Dirk
## --snip here
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## ~/bin/build-R-devel
#!/bin/sh
cd ~/svn/r-devel
# R_PAPERSIZE=letter \
# R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore" \
# R_BROWSER=xdg-open \
# PAGER=/usr/bin/pager \
# PERL=/usr/bin/perl \
# R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip \
# R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip \
# R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr \
# LIBnn=lib \
# AWK=/usr/bin/awk \
# CC="ccache gcc" \
# CFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -DTESTING_WRITE_BARRIER" \
# CXX="ccache g++" \
# CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -std=c++0x -pipe -Wall -pedantic" \
# FC="ccache gfortran" \
# FCFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic" \
# F77="ccache gfortran" \
# FFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic" \
# MAKE="make -j4" \
# ./configure \
# --prefix=/usr/local/lib/R-devel \
# --enable-R-shlib \
# --enable-strict-barrier \
# --with-blas \
# --with-lapack \
# --with-readline \
# --without-recommended-packages
R_PAPERSIZE=letter \
R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore" \
R_BROWSER=xdg-open \
PAGER=/usr/bin/pager \
PERL=/usr/bin/perl \
R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip \
R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip \
R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr \
LIBnn=lib \
AWK=/usr/bin/awk \
CC="ccache gcc" \
CFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic" \
CXX="ccache g++" \
CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic" \
FC="ccache gfortran" \
F77="ccache gfortran" \
MAKE="make -j4" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/lib/R-devel \
--enable-R-shlib \
--with-blas \
--with-lapack \
--with-readline \
--without-recommended-packages
#CC="clang -O3" \
#CXX="clang++ -03" \
#make svnonly
make
echo "*** Done -- now run 'make install'"
## --snip here
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
## ~/bin/R-devel.sh
#!/bin/bash
export
R_LIBS_SITE=${R_LIBS_SITE-'/usr/lib/R-devel/lib/R/library:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library::/usr/lib/R/library'}
export PATH="/usr/local/lib/R-devel/bin:$PATH"
R "$@"
--
Dirk Eddelbuettel | [email protected] | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
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