R help - Nov 2017 - Sharing an R installation via NFS on ubuntu cluster

hi all,

i want to share an R installation from a master node to several compute
nodes via NFS. all nodes run ubuntu 16.04. I tried building R from source
but hit a wall several times because of missing dependencies. So I am
looking for something that uses the usual apt-get install proceedure, but
would place the installation in the non-standard location. For context,
right now I would have to share all of

*root at master*:*~*  whereis R

R: /usr/bin/R /usr/lib/R /etc/R /usr/local/lib/R /usr/share/R
/usr/share/man/man1/R.1.gz

and I would like to install R into a new folder on the master node, say,
NFS_share, and share just that.

I found that `dpkg` has an option `--root=directory` to specify a non
standard install location for a debian package installation. but i'm not
even sure how this would work on ubuntu (can i install a debian packge on
ubuntu?!)

thanks for any help!
florian

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On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Florian Oswald <florian.oswald at
gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i want to share an R installation from a master node to several compute
> nodes via NFS. all nodes run ubuntu 16.04. I tried building R from source
> but hit a wall several times because of missing dependencies.
apt-get build-dep r-base

should take care of that.

--Ista

So I am
> looking for something that uses the usual apt-get install proceedure, but
> would place the installation in the non-standard location. For context,
> right now I would have to share all of
>
> *root at master*:*~*  whereis R
>
> R: /usr/bin/R /usr/lib/R /etc/R /usr/local/lib/R /usr/share/R
> /usr/share/man/man1/R.1.gz
>
> and I would like to install R into a new folder on the master node, say,
> NFS_share, and share just that.
>
> I found that `dpkg` has an option `--root=directory` to specify a non
> standard install location for a debian package installation. but i'm
not
> even sure how this would work on ubuntu (can i install a debian packge on
> ubuntu?!)
>
> thanks for any help!
> florian
>
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I can install R with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install r-base


this is not my problem, and indeed, not my question. my question was how
could I share the resulting R installation over NFS? Do I have to export
every location where apt-get installs a component or can I force apt-get to
place the installation in a certain location?



On 8 November 2017 at 17:37, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Florian Oswald <florian.oswald at
gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > hi all,
> >
> > i want to share an R installation from a master node to several
compute
> > nodes via NFS. all nodes run ubuntu 16.04. I tried building R from
source
> > but hit a wall several times because of missing dependencies.
>
> apt-get build-dep r-base
>
> should take care of that.
>
> --Ista
>
> So I am
> > looking for something that uses the usual apt-get install proceedure,
but
> > would place the installation in the non-standard location. For
context,
> > right now I would have to share all of
> >
> > *root at master*:*~*  whereis R
> >
> > R: /usr/bin/R /usr/lib/R /etc/R /usr/local/lib/R /usr/share/R
> > /usr/share/man/man1/R.1.gz
> >
> > and I would like to install R into a new folder on the master node,
say,
> > NFS_share, and share just that.
> >
> > I found that `dpkg` has an option `--root=directory` to specify a non
> > standard install location for a debian package installation. but
i'm not
> > even sure how this would work on ubuntu (can i install a debian packge
on
> > ubuntu?!)
> >
> > thanks for any help!
> > florian
> >
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> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > 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.
>
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