[R] [R-help] how to install own R withour root?

[Bill.Venables at csiro.au]

You need to adjust your PATH environment variable so that the /path_of_my_home/R/bin comes ahead of the system R/bin directory.  (Or you can simply remove the system R/bin and substitute your own R/bin.

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From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Daofeng Li [lidaof at gmail.com]
Sent: 13 June 2009 15:28
To: Paul Hiemstra
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R] [R-help] how to install own R withour root?

Hi,

i had intstalled R in my home directory
and i can run the new install R from /path_of_my_home/R/bin/R
but when i type R, it runs the system installed older R 2.4
can i just type an R command and it runs my new installed R?

Thanks!

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Paul Hiemstra <p.hiemstra at geo.uu.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In addition. You can also install everything just in your home drive. Using
> the configure script you can change the installation path of all R related
> stuff:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/home/bla/progsandlibs
>
> The binaries end up in ~/progsandlibs/bin, and the libraries in
> ~/progsandlibs/bin. If you use this consistently with all the programs you
> install using ./configure and add progsandlibs to you $PATH, you can install
> all the software in your home drive with no difference in functionality.
>
> cheers,
> Paul
>
>
> Patrick Connolly wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 09-Jun-2009 at 11:50AM +0800, Daofeng Li wrote:
>>
>> |> Dear list members,
>> |> |> i am currently want to install Rpy2 in a linux box which has R 2.4.0
>> |> installed
>> |> RPy requries R 2.7.0 or above
>> |> but i have no root previlleges
>> |> so my question is how to install R 2.7.0 on my own directory?
>>
>> You might as well install R-2.9.0 while you're at it.
>>
>> |> and replace the system installed R 2.4.0 when i input R command from
>> the
>> |> bash Shell?
>>
>> You can download the R-2.9.0.tar.gz to a directory you have access to.
>> I'll call it ~/Rhome/
>>
>> uncompress the file with tar xvzf R-2.9.0.tar.gz
>> and then move to the R-2.9.0 subdirectory that will be created.
>>
>> In that directory, you'll find a file called INSTALL which will give
>> you very simple clear directions.  Don't try to make a site-wide
>> installation which isn't appropriate in your case.
>>
>> The executable will be at ~/Rhome/R-2.9.0/bin/R
>>
>> Assuming you have a ~/bin directory, I find the simplest thing is to
>> make a link in that directory to the executable.
>>
>> Now the part that might be slightly tricky.  If you can't get someone
>> with root access to remove the R-2.4.0 installation, it's simple
>> enough to prevent it clashing with your newer version.  Make the name
>> of the link in ~/bin/ something slightly different from R, such as RR
>> or whatever you fancy.  You then start R with that name.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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>


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Daofeng Li,PhD Candidate
China Agricultural University

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