R help - Dec 2006 - 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

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

> 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