R help - May 2005 - building from source after installing binary package

Dear All,

I've got into the habit of installing R from the precompiled Debian
binaries, including many of the packages from the r-cran-* Debian packages, and
later building from source (e.g., to link against Goto's BLAS, or to build
patched versions, etc). I install the newly built R to the very same place
(/usr/lib/R). This allows me to build and update R when I wish, AND provides the
ease of quickly updating many packages.

Things have always worked fine, but after a few funny problems (which could be
unrelated to the process itself) I've started wondering if this is a rather
silly thing to do, and if I should keep my own build separate from the Debian
stuff. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

R.
--
Ram侒n D來az-Uriarte
Bioinformatics Unit
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncol侒gicas (CNIO)
(Spanish National Cancer Center)
Melchor Fern佱ndez Almagro, 3
28029 Madrid (Spain)
Fax: +-34-91-224-6972
Phone: +-34-91-224-6900

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Diaz.Ramon wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I've got into the habit of installing R from the precompiled Debian
binaries, including many of the packages from the r-cran-* Debian packages, and
later building from source (e.g., to link against Goto's BLAS, or to build
patched versions, etc). I install the newly built R to the very same place
(/usr/lib/R). This allows me to build and update R when I wish, AND provides the
ease of quickly updating many packages.
> 
> Things have always worked fine, but after a few funny problems (which could
be unrelated to the process itself) I've started wondering if this is a
rather silly thing to do, and if I should keep my own build separate from the
Debian stuff. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Yes, simply install to another directory, e.g. by telling configure:

./configure --prefix=/I/want/to/have/R/installed/here


Uwe Ligges

> Thanks,
> 
> R.
> --
> Ram侒n D來az-Uriarte
> Bioinformatics Unit
> Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncol侒gicas (CNIO)
> (Spanish National Cancer Center)
> Melchor Fern佱ndez Almagro, 3
> 28029 Madrid (Spain)
> Fax: +-34-91-224-6972
> Phone: +-34-91-224-6900
> 
> http://ligarto.org/rdiaz
> PGP KeyID: 0xE89B3462
> (http://ligarto.org/rdiaz/0xE89B3462.asc)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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