[R] uninstalling and installing on linux
Juliet Hannah
juliet.hannah at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 18:10:40 CEST 2010
Hi List,
I have a question about uninstalling and installing R on linux, which
I am new to.
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14)
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
First, I am trying to uninstall my old version of R with "make uninstall".
[jh1 at head4 ~/R-2.10.1]$ make uninstall
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/po'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/po'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tests'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tests'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/library'
uninstalling packages ...
/bin/sh: line 0: cd: /usr/local/lib64/R/library: No such file or directory
subdir /usr/local/lib64/R/library not removed
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/library'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/modules'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/modules'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/main'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/main'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/unix'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/unix'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/nmath'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/nmath'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/appl'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/appl'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/extra'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/extra'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include/R_ext'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include/R_ext'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/scripts'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/scripts'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/share'
uninstalling share ...
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/share'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/etc'
uninstalling etc ...
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/etc'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/doc'
uninstalling doc ...
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/doc'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tools'
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/m4'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/m4'
This has not worked for me, meaning I can still use R, so instead I
removed the directory
rm -fR R-2.10.1
Is one method preferable to another. And what am I doing incorrectly
with "make uninstall"?
My second question is about installation. I just installed the new
version for Windows,and it took a few minutes.
On linux, I
downloaded the R tar.gz file
tar xzvf R-2.9.1.tar.gz (old command)
./configure
make
make check
This process takes about 2 hours. I'm curious about the time it takes,
and wondering if I am doing any incorrectly?
Thanks,
Juliet
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