R SIG Fedora - Jul 2011 - multiple installations of R (in Fedora)

Dear list,

so far I installed new versions of R on top of the old one in default
/linux/local/lib64 .
For several reasons (mostly compatibility issues) I would like to change this
and to keep older versions still functional/available.  Furthermore this should
allow to perform installing and testing completely independent of any user still
using a precedent version of R, and the switch for users just wanting the latest
version should work via changing a simple link.
I've checked through the documents for installation
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation) and the R-FAQ
(http://cran.r-project.org/doc/FAQ/R-FAQ.html) and the mailing list archive
(http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/about.html) for further information on this
issue, but somehow I'm not getting this working ... However, I'm sure
many of you might be doing somtyhing of this kind, so that's why I'm
looking for your advice.

I'm not sure if that matters, at this moment I still have fully another
functional installation of R in (default) /linux/local/lib64 .

So the place I'd like to install (and keep various versions of R) now/in the
future is
/linux/biolo/R_fedora/
where I have a copy of R-latest.tar (which is the version I'd like to
install at this moment, later e.g. developer versions of R might be added as
well)

Here the steps I tried :
 tar -xvf R-latest.tar
  # then I go the directory that has been created :
 cd /linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/
 ./configure  --enable-R-shlib  --prefix=/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1
  # until here everything seems to work fine

make

here I get :
make[1]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/m4'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `R'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/m4'
make[1]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `R'.
...
make[1]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
make[2]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
installing parsed Rd
make[3]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  base
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  stats
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  utils
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  methods
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  graphics
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  grDevices
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  datasets
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  grid
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  tools
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  tcltk
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  splines
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  stats4
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
  compiler
make[3]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
make[2]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
building/updating package metadata ...
make[2]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
make[2]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
writing package indices
make[3]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
make[3]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library'
make[1]: Entering directory
`/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library/Recommended'
make[2]: Entering directory
`/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library/Recommended'
make[2]: `stamp-recommended' is up to date.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library/Recommended'
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/src/library/Recommended'


When I then try to go on with
 make check

this will give :
make[1]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
make[3]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests/Examples'
WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
Testing examples for package 'base'
...
Testing examples for package 'compiler'
  comparing 'compiler-Ex.Rout' to 'compiler-Ex.Rout.prev' ... OK
make[3]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests/Examples'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
running strict specific tests
make[3]: Entering directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
running code in 'eval-etc.R' ... OK
  comparing 'eval-etc.Rout' to './eval-etc.Rout.save'
...WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
1d0
< WARNING: ignoring environment value of R_HOME
make[3]: *** [eval-etc.Rout] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
make[2]: *** [test-Specific] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
make[1]: *** [test-all-basics] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/linux/biolo/R_fedora/R-2.13.1/tests'
make: *** [check] Error 2


Do you have any ideas what I'm not getting right  or what I could try next ?
Is there a confusion between R_HOME of the already existing installation of R
and how could I make the co-habit without interfering newer installations ?

Thank's in advance,
Wolfgang


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IGBMC,
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