On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Daniel Nordlund wrote:
> R-users,
>
> I am new user of Linux (have been using Win XP Pro) and wanted to
> install R. Since I am just beginning to learn Linux I was wondering,
> where in the directory structure do users of Linux usually install R?
> Most of the instructions I have read simply say to untar the tarball
> where you want to install the program. Any suggestions would be welcome
> as to an appropriate place. I know I could get an rpm, but wanted to
> use this as a learning process for a variety of skills. Currently
> working with SuSE 9.1
There is a definitive set of instructions, in the file INSTALL in
the tarball and at
https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/INSTALL
Unpacking and installing are separate operations. There is more
information in the R-admin manual (which you already have in a Windows
version of R, and is also in the tarball).
What most of us do is to untar in any convenient place (I use ~/R), use
configure, make, and then use 'make install' to >install< R. This
installs in /usr/local in the conventional subdirectories (and
conventionally needs su to access). Having installed, you can wipe out
the unpacked version of the tarball.
So, in my example
cd ~/R
tar zxf R-2.2.1.tar.gz
cd R-2.2.1
configure
make
make info pdf
su
make install install-info install-pdf
[leave su shell]
cd ..
rm -rf R-2.2.1
Rehash and start R.
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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