[Rd] Where does install.R go when R gets compiled? Or, how to experiment with changes to install.R?

[Paul Johnson]

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Jens Elkner <jel+r at cs.uni-magdeburg.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:33:14AM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
>> I'm pursuing an experiment to make RPM files for R packages
>> on-the-fly. Any time I install an R package successfully, I want to
>> wrap up those files in an RPM.   Basically, the idea is to "hack" an
>> option similar to --build for R CMD INSTALL.
>
> Hmm, why not take the easy way:
>
>    clean_dst $PROTO
>    cd $TMPBUILD
>    mkdir -p $PROTO/R/library
>    $R_HOME/bin/R CMD INSTALL -l $PROTO/R/library $TMPBUILD
>
Yes, I've been there, done that.

I have to administer this on 60 servers in a cluster.  I don't want to
rebuild all packages on all systems. If I can figure a way to create
RPM for them, I can script the RPM installs and then I'm sure all the
systems are identical.

In the worst case scenario, I just have to copy the library tree from
one machine to another.  But the RPM approach has a bit more built-in
error checking.

pj
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