Dear Dirk, Dear Johannes, Thanks for helping, I could solve the problem.
By reading your posts, I got a bit of the impression that questions beyond the 'standard installation' process are not really welcome on R-SIG-Debian. If this is the case, I'm sorry for my post. I wasn't aware of this, but Dirk makes it clear why on https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2013-March/002062.html. As Dirk also mentioned on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8343686/how-to-install-2-different-r-versions-on-debian installing from source is the only practical way in case one needs several R versions. I now went back to Chapter 2 of http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html to read more about it and to see whether I have done something substantially wrong. This seemed not to be the case. Next, Dirk's wonderful little example helped... I could check that .Renviron is indeed found. Then it was easy: my local version-independent library was not found simply because .libPaths() only contains those folders which physically exist (also mentioned on ?.libPaths). And indeed, I had not checked that. Here is thus the final solution that worked (in case useful for others or being improved upon [slightly expanded in comparison to the original one, e.g., also addressing how to obtain a key -- the server is different than keys.gnupg.net mentioned on CRAN.]): 1) sudo emacs /etc/apt/sources.list # then add: deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/ deb-src http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/ # => then run sudo apt-get update. It fails due to a missing key => note the missing key number # and use sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key <NUMBER> where # <NUMBER> = number of the missing public key 2) sudo apt-get build-dep r-base 3) sudo mkdir /usr/local/R sudo chown mhofert:mhofert /usr/local/R cd /usr/local/R # if old versions exist (./R-devel, ./R-devel-build, ./R-devel.tar.gz etc.), # delete them first, then do: wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-3/R-3.1.3.tar.gz tar -xzf R-3.1.3.tar.gz mv R-3.1.3 R-3.1.3-source mkdir R-3.1.3-build cd R-3.1.3-build ../R-3.1.3-source/configure # we do ./configure *outside* the source directory (=> keep sources) make make check make pdf make info cd .. ln -s /usr/local/R/R-3.1.3-build/bin/R /usr/local/R/R mkdir /usr/local/R/library # create version-independent library sudo emacs ~/etc/bash.bashrc # then add: PATH=/usr/local/R:$PATH 4) ~/.Renviron should contain R_LIBS=/usr/local/R/library Thanks & cheers, Marius On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marius, > > On 30 March 2015 at 12:30, Marius Hofert wrote: > | Here is how I installed R. This is basically how Martin Maechler > | showed me to install R under Ubuntu (in several versions so that they > | are also recognized by ESS). My goal is to adjust this to make it work > | for Debian: > > That's your beef. We support reasonably feature complete packages built in > reasonably well-engineered and by now mostly debugged processes. > > You can of course build your own, but if you do and things break you get to > keep those pieces. > > And how to build R(-devel) locally has been discussed in the past. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
