R help - Mar 2016 - Change the location of R

Hi,I have R v 3.0 installed /usr/... and the new version R-3.2.3 in my home
under ubuntu. Is it correct to copy the R-3.2.3 directory into /usr/local/lib/R/
or should I reconfig and remake into /usr/local/lib/R/?
Regards,
Carol

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Hi Carol,

carol white via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> writes:
> Hi,I have R v 3.0 installed /usr/... and the new version R-3.2.3 in my
> home under ubuntu. Is it correct to copy the R-3.2.3 directory into
> /usr/local/lib/R/ or should I reconfig and remake into
> /usr/local/lib/R/?
> Regards,
> Carol
The standard way is just to use the --prefix option of configure to
point to the directory in which you want to install R.  However, you can
probably just move the directory as well.  Either way, you need to
ensure that R is found.  For that you will have to do add something like

export R_HOME=/path/to/R/3.2.3/lib64/R 
export PATH=/path/to/R/3.2.3/bin:$PATH

to your .bashrc file (e.g. /home/carol/.bashrc).

HTH

Loris

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