Hi Marius, thanks for your reply.
> > So maybe you could modify your instructions to the case where someone > > wants to have R-devel in addition to the released R version, if that is > > what you are aiming at? I could then add it to the README for Debian on > > CRAN. > > That sounds good. I just modified the instructions to R-devel and used > a more "Kurt-like" naming convention: > 1) sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list > deb http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/ > deb-src http://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/debian jessie-cran3/ ... > 9) Create a (symbolic) link (don't use 'make install'): > cd .. > ln -s /usr/local/R/R-devel_build/bin/R /usr/local/R/R-devel Why not put a link into /usr/local/bin which is already in the path? > 10) mkdir /usr/local/R/library > 11) Add /usr/local/R to PATH: > sudo nano /etc/bash.bashrc # then put in: > PATH=/usr/local/R:$PATH # R installation > 12) Reboot Reboot??? It is sufficient to source your bash config file to get the new path. Kind regards, Johannes > Clearly, some words (of warning) are in order ..., e.g., to use $USER > in 4) instead of <user>, to adapt the right path in 5), to have tools > like tar available or also to maybe choose some other file than > /etc/bash.bashrc for adjusting PATH (see > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=121169 for why I chose > this file). > > I very much like Dirk's message here: "That's your beef" (good word of > warning), but someone who needs to go that way should be able to > follow along the above lines. > > > And then, regarding your comment on the keyserver listed in the README, > > what's wrong with keys.gnupg.net? I just tested it (again) and it worked > > fine. > ... there was a problem for me initially (some kind of > host-resolve-thingy -- can't remember anymore). After googling, I then > found the other key server and it was also suggested to use the actual > key the error message mentions (see step 2)) instead of the fixed > 381BA480. I understand too little about the involved risk of changing > that but the above worked for me. > > Many cheers (and sorry for the late reply -- it's end-of-term), > Marius > > > Kind regards, > > > > Johannes > > > > Am Montag, 30. März 2015, 20:42:47 schrieb Marius Hofert: > >> 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-v > >> ers ions-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 > > > > -- > > PD Dr. Johannes Ranke > > Kronacher Str. 8 > > 79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen -- PD Dr. Johannes Ranke Kronacher Str. 8 79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
