[R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
Dear Rexperts, after building R 2.4.0 from source in a temporary directory (*without* installation), and subsequently moving the whole source/build tree to another location, I have noticed that I had to change the variables R_SHARE_DIR, R_INCLUDE_DIR, and R_DOC_DIR in the wrapper-script /lib/R/bin/R as to reflect the current situation. However, when I try to run the HTML help via help.start() I still get an error message saying that: sh: /tmp/r-project-build/usr/lib/R/share/sh/help-links.sh: No such file or directory Interestingly, the system still tries to search for scripts in /tmp/r-project-build/, the temporary build directory that clearly isn't valid now. My question is: has the mentioned path become hard-coded in the binaries or am I missing some config-file/wrapper script that needs to be edited in order to reflect the current state? Thank you in advance for any hints! All the best, Ivailo __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 19:34 +0200, Ivailo Stoyanov wrote: Dear Rexperts, after building R 2.4.0 from source in a temporary directory (*without* installation), and subsequently moving the whole source/build tree to another location, I have noticed that I had to change the variables R_SHARE_DIR, R_INCLUDE_DIR, and R_DOC_DIR in the wrapper-script /lib/R/bin/R as to reflect the current situation. However, when I try to run the HTML help via help.start() I still get an error message saying that: sh: /tmp/r-project-build/usr/lib/R/share/sh/help-links.sh: No such file or directory Interestingly, the system still tries to search for scripts in /tmp/r-project-build/, the temporary build directory that clearly isn't valid now. My question is: has the mentioned path become hard-coded in the binaries or am I missing some config-file/wrapper script that needs to be edited in order to reflect the current state? Thank you in advance for any hints! All the best, Ivailo When you moved the source/build tree to another location, did you use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'? The former is the _proper_ way to actually install R, after building from source and this is covered in the R Admin Manual. See: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation HTH, Marc Schwartz __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
When you moved the source/build tree to another location, did you use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'? No, I haven't used make install because I prefer to run R from within the build location. The former is the _proper_ way to actually install R, after building from source and this is covered in the R Admin Manual. See: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation AFAIK, the approach of running R from within the build location is fully valid as it is noted at the end of section 2.1 Simple compilation, just above the cited one: ... Note: you do not need to install R: you can run it from where it was built. All the best, Ivailo __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
Ivailo Stoyanov wrote: When you moved the source/build tree to another location, did you use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'? No, I haven't used make install because I prefer to run R from within the build location. The former is the _proper_ way to actually install R, after building from source and this is covered in the R Admin Manual. See: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation AFAIK, the approach of running R from within the build location is fully valid as it is noted at the end of section 2.1 Simple compilation, just above the cited one: Yes, but then it is not actually installed. ... Note: you do not need to install R: you can run it from where it was built. You can, but note that it doesn't say that you can move the build location afterwards, and in fact, you can not, because of the non-relative pathnames. All the best, Ivailo __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 20:15 +0200, Ivailo Stoyanov wrote: When you moved the source/build tree to another location, did you use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'? No, I haven't used make install because I prefer to run R from within the build location. The former is the _proper_ way to actually install R, after building from source and this is covered in the R Admin Manual. See: http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation AFAIK, the approach of running R from within the build location is fully valid as it is noted at the end of section 2.1 Simple compilation, just above the cited one: ... Note: you do not need to install R: you can run it from where it was built. All the best, Ivailo A key piece of information not in your original post was that you were not installing R, but wanted to run it from whence it was built...and then moved it and were attempting to run it from a new location. You will need to change $R_HOME, which defines the primary home directory for the currently running R session. This is defined in the main R startup script, which will be in the 'bin' sub-directory for your R tree. I have not validated this that will do it, but short of re-building R in the new location, this should work I think. Many of the environmental vars are hard coded during the build process and then modified during a make install based upon build time configuration options. If you want to install R in a non-default location, I would suggest considering modifying the ./configure options and then building to suit your needs. HTH, Marc __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
Peter Dalgaard wrote: [snip] AFAIK, the approach of running R from within the build location is fully valid as it is noted at the end of section 2.1 Simple compilation, just above the cited one: Yes, but then it is not actually installed. [snip] ... Note: you do not need to install R: you can run it from where it was built. You can, but note that it doesn't say that you can move the build location afterwards, and in fact, you can not, because of the non-relative pathnames. Actually, I have used R for a long time without any (apparent) problems being installed this way. I just changed the mentioned variables manually, and everything was running just fine -- until I needed to check the HTML help recently. Therefore I thought that I've missed to fix some config-file in an analogous maner to solve the problem with the script that wasn't found by the system. I assume that I have to recompile (something that I was hoping to avoid due to the rather decent system I use currently) to get this issue fixed. Am I right? __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
Marc Schwartz wrote: I have not validated this that will do it, but short of re-building R in the new location, this should work I think. Many of the environmental vars are hard coded during the build process and then modified during a make install based upon build time configuration options. If you want to install R in a non-default location, I would suggest considering modifying the ./configure options and then building to suit your needs. HTH, Marc OK, I'll check the ./configure options passed through the build script I used last time. Thanks to all helpers so far, Ivailo __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?
Thanks to the valuable hints posted, I managed to track down the source of the problem -- a copy of the *uncorrected* /usr/lib/R/bin/R script was left over in /usr/bin. Thank you again for the patience! Greets, Ivailo __ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
