[Rd] regenerate Rscript after moving R installation

[Tobias Verbeke]

Dear Simon,

Many thanks for all additional detail and insight into
your practice using rhome and symlinks. Much appreciated!

Best,
Tobias

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> To: "Tobias Verbeke" <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu>
> Cc: r-devel at r-project.org
> Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 3:45:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] regenerate Rscript after moving R installation
> 
> I forgot to mention that some packages bake-in paths as well, so even if you
> fix both R and Rscript, it will still not work in general.
> 
> On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sep 21, 2013, at 8:43 PM, Tobias Verbeke
> > <tobias.verbeke at openanalytics.eu> wrote:
> > 
> >> L.S.
> >> 
> >> In this bug report
> >> 
> >> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14493#c1
> >> 
> >> it is mentioned that after moving an R installation
> >> one should regenerate the Rscript executable.
> >> 
> >> Is there an easy way to do so (after an R installation has been
> >> moved)?
> >> 
> > 
> > You cannot move installed R. Once you run make install, there are several
> > places in which paths get baked in - mainly Rscript and the R start
> > script. What I typically do for deployment on the Labs machines is to use
> > make install rhome=<xxx> where <xxx> is some path that I can always create
> > a symlink in (I also use DESTDIR so that path doesn't actually need to
> > exist on the build machine and it avoid polluting --prefix which is not
> > needed). That way you can move R wherever you want as long so you keep
> > that one symlink up to date.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Simon
> > 
> > 
> >> I have not found any information in the R installation and
> >> administration manual.
> >> 
> >> Many thanks in advance for any pointer.
> >> 
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Tobias
> >> 
> >> P.S. The background to this question is the usage of Rscript
> >> calls in the Makevars files of some R packages on CRAN, so
> >> the 'broken' Rscript prevents installation of certain R packages.
> >> 
> >> --
> >> 
> >> Tobias Verbeke
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