[R] Validating R after it has been installed!

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Leslie_Branch at hgsi.com writes:

> While compiling R (Any version) you run configure, make test, and then make
> install.  After which you are done.  I am wondering if there is a way we
> can run the "make test" part again on what was just installed.  If I
> understand the process correctly when you initially run "make test" you are
> testing R in the test area and not the install directory.  Is it something
> as simple as changing the BASEDIR in the makefile or is it a bit more
> complicated.

Installation is almost exclusively a copying operation, so
it is unlikely that installation would break the kind of thing
that "make test" checks for, but you could change the definition of $R
in the makefiles inside tests/ and tests/Examples. 

Alternatively, you can skip the installation step and run R out of the
build directory (ln -sf path/to/RBUILD/bin/R /usr/local/bin). 

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