[R] Problems with Rscript executable.

Gregg Phillips Gregory.M.Phillips at noaa.gov
Mon Apr 28 20:23:23 CEST 2008


Yes,

Re-running make install at the src/unix level seems to have fixed it. I 
originally ran make install at the top level after running ./configure 
--prefix=/usr/local/r-2.7.0.

Thank You for your assistance,

Gregg.

Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> I have recently built R version 2.7.0 on a CentOS release 4.6, 64-bit
>> system using the following command:
>
>> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/r-2.7.0
>
>> Everything built fine and works properly except for Rscript which is
>> looking for files in the original build directory instead of the
>> specified install directory. Did I forget to add a flag or is this a 
>> bug?
>
> How did you install?  If you do
>
> cd src/unix
> make install
>
> you should see Rscript being remade with the destination path included.
> E.g. I see
>
> auk% make install
> gcc -std=gnu99 -I. -I../../src/include -I../../src/include 
> -I/usr/local/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -g -O2 
> -DR_HOME='"/usr/local/lib64/R"' -o Rscript \
>           ./Rscript.c
>
> I've seen problems with parallel makes, but running this again should 
> solve those.
>



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