On 29 August 2015 at 17:14, Liviu Andronic wrote: | 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
Yes. I update R-devel about weekly as I too need to check my packages. | considered/worked on putting this script into proper 'debian' | packaging instructions? If such existed, it would be easy enough to I think about it a bit, but I just do not have the time and bandwith to i) completely rewrite debian/* for the r-base package ii) to become accomodating of two R interpreters iii) in a way that is seemless and does not introduce bugs in the transition | 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, There is an easier way. Install docker, either via the docker.io package or (as I do now) via the apt repo docker.com offers. I maintain two images rocker/drd "Daily R-devel" -- a little smaller, deletes build deps rocker/r-devel r-devel builds you can use 'as is'. Or you can use the script you mentioned. I mostly do the latter. Dirk | 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 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
