[BioC] oligo on R 2.4.1?

[Wolfgang Huber]

Dear Jenny,

> Thanks Jim, Xinxia and Seth for the good suggestion! I wondered about
> doing it, and Jim's line-by-line directions were VERY helpful.
> Everything appeared to configure and build correctly, but adding
> "export PATH=/home/jdrnevich/R-devel/bin:$PATH" to my .bashrc file is
> not working to find my local install of R. Any other suggestions of
> what to try?

As an alternative to editing PATH, I find it convenient to create a
little file (shell script) in my $HOME/bin directory, of the name "R"
and with contents like

#!/bin/sh
exec /home/huber/R-2.4.1/bin/R  $*

On many systems, $HOME/bin is already in the PATH. That way you can
easily juggle between different versions of R, set environment variables
like "LD_LIBRARY_PATH" locally just for this R (not interfering with
other software), prepend "nice -n 19" etc.


 Best wishes
 Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Huber  EBI/EMBL  Cambridge UK  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber