Dear Dirk, Thanks for the script. I would never have figured that out myself!
The info you have provided could perhaps be published somewhere (or perhaps it is trivial for linux-gurus?). For myself, I have boiled up the 3 small shell scripts attached: One for getting the R-devel, one for installing R-devel and one for running R-devel. Maybe these scripts can help other newbies. Thanks again. Cheers Søren -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 8. august 2012 23:23 To: Søren Højsgaard Cc: [email protected]; Dirk Eddelbuettel ([email protected]) Subject: Re: Having both R-current and R-devel installed on Ubuntu 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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