Hi Dirk, I too would need to get R-devel on my Ubuntu box (alongside an existing R installation) to check my packages, especially given the mayhem that awaits us when the new `R CMD check --as-cran` goes live. ( http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.html )
I was wondering if the script that you posted on r-sig-debian a couple years back was still valid. More however, I'd like to know if you ever considered/worked on putting this script into proper 'debian' packaging instructions? If such existed, it would be easy enough to mirror the R repo on Launchpad and then provide daily builds of r-devel on a PPA (in view of independent installation from stable R packages). Any ideas on this? Regards, Liviu On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
