R SIG Debian - Nov 2023 - [R] Why Rprofile.site is not built with manual installation of R devel in linux?

Hi all,

I downloaded R-devel as explicited in
https://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html
Then, I tried to install it through instructions in
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Installation
(taking into account also
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-May/072777.html)
So:
export REPOS=https://svn.r-project.org/R
export RTOP=~ #adjust as necessary
cd $RTOP
svn co $REPOS/trunk r-devel/R
cd r-devel/R
tools/rsync-recommended
mkdir ../build-R
 cd ../build-R
 ../R/configure --prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go
 make
 make check
make install
make install-tests
cd tests
## followed by one of
../bin/R CMD make check
../bin/R CMD make check-devel

And here I get the following error
checking package 'base'
Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
  cannot open the connection
Calls: source -> file
In addition: Warning message:
In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
  cannot open file '.../etc/Rprofile.site': No such file or directory
Execution halted

where the dots ... specify the path to the build-R folder where R-devel was
built. And I check the etc folder and indeed there is no the Rprofile.site
-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago  209 Nov  9 08:27 javaconf
-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago  770 Nov  9 08:35 ldpaths
-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 6672 Nov  9 08:35 Makeconf
-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 3336 Nov  9 08:27 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 1853 Nov  9 08:27 Renviron
-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 1173 Nov  9 08:32 repositories

I note that make install installed R in the path I specified in  ../R/configure
--prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go
however
    1. make install-tests installed the tests folder in build-R .
    2.  In the installed R in /where/you/want/R/to/go, there is no even etc
folder, there are only the folders bin, lib and share.

Am I  skipping some step? I am on Debain 12.

Thank you!


Iago

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No clue. Tip: R-devel is the mailing list for anything related to development
versions of R. Off-topic here.

On November 9, 2023 2:59:44 AM PST, "Iago Gin? V?zquez" <iago.gine
at sjd.es> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I downloaded R-devel as explicited in
https://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html
>Then, I tried to install it through instructions in
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Installation
>(taking into account also
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-May/072777.html)
>So:
>export REPOS=https://svn.r-project.org/R
>export RTOP=~ #adjust as necessary
>cd $RTOP
>svn co $REPOS/trunk r-devel/R
>cd r-devel/R
>tools/rsync-recommended
>mkdir ../build-R
> cd ../build-R
> ../R/configure --prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go
> make
> make check
>make install
>make install-tests
>cd tests
>## followed by one of
>../bin/R CMD make check
>../bin/R CMD make check-devel
>
>And here I get the following error
>checking package 'base'
>Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>  cannot open the connection
>Calls: source -> file
>In addition: Warning message:
>In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>  cannot open file '.../etc/Rprofile.site': No such file or
directory
>Execution halted
>
>where the dots ... specify the path to the build-R folder where R-devel was
built. And I check the etc folder and indeed there is no the Rprofile.site
>-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago  209 Nov  9 08:27 javaconf
>-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago  770 Nov  9 08:35 ldpaths
>-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 6672 Nov  9 08:35 Makeconf
>-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 3336 Nov  9 08:27 Makefile
>-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 1853 Nov  9 08:27 Renviron
>-rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 1173 Nov  9 08:32 repositories
>
>I note that make install installed R in the path I specified in 
../R/configure --prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go
>however
>    1. make install-tests installed the tests folder in build-R .
>    2.  In the installed R in /where/you/want/R/to/go, there is no even etc
folder, there are only the folders bin, lib and share.
>
>Am I  skipping some step? I am on Debain 12.
>
>Thank you!
>
>
>Iago
>
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>
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