[R] install R in relative path

[Tom Graves]

Do you know if there is anyway to not have to put it in the PATH or symlink to the original build location?  I was hoping just calling it in relative path like ./R-3.3.1/bin/Rscript would do it but it errors Rscript execution error: No such file or directory.  is there any sort of RPATH (similar to like a PYTHONPATH) that I could use.  It looks like just building it is still expecting it to be in the path it was built.  In your example you are still symlinking R to be the original build location so everything is there.
What I need to do is build it, tar it up and ship it with my hadoop job which would untar it into something like ./R_install/....  I need to point to that ./R_install/bin/Rscript.  
I am currently using R-3.2.1 so I'll try upgrading too.
Thanks,Tom 

    On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 3:38 AM, Martin Maechler <maechler at stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote:
 

 >>>>> Tom Graves via R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
>>>>>    on Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:06:54 +0000 writes:

    > Hello everyone, I am trying to figure out if I can install
    > R in a relative path?

Yes.  Even better you don't have to "install" it at all in the
strict sense.
Just *build* it and run it from the build directory.

If you use the source tarball 
currently,  R-3.3.1.tar.gz,  in 12 days will be R-3.2.2.tar.gz

Let's assume you'd want everything in your

 $HOME/R-inst/

Then you do

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cd ~/R-inst
tar xfz <whereever>/R-3.3.1.tar.gz
    # now has created  R-3.3.1
    # we strongly recommend to use a *separate* build directory :
mkdir R-3.3.1-build
cd  R-3.3.1-build
../R-3.3.1/configure
make
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make check-all    

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Note that you do *NEVER* type  'make install'  in the above setup

The only important remaining step is
make a symbolic link of    R-3.3.1-build/bin/R
to a directory part of your PATH.  If you are on a standard
unix/linux/(Mac?) setup :

  mkdir -p ~/bin
  cd ~/bin
  ln -s ~/R-inst/R-3.3.1-build/bin/R .

Alternatively, you could do

  export PATH=$HOME/R-inst/R-3.3.1-build/bin/R:$PATH

but I never do that.
Indeed, I use many R versions in this way, and in the above case
would use

  ln -s  ........../R-3.3.1-build/bin/R  R-3.3.1

and then have R-3.0.0, R-3.0.1, ..., R-3.2.5  R-3.3.0  R-3.3.1 
all in my PATH and all via symbolic links

(and ESS = Emacs Speaks Statistics finds all these
 automagically, so I can each start easily from within Emacs).

Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich

    >  The reason I need to do this is to
    > send R along to a Hadoop cluster so that I can use sparkR
    > with the R version I shipped. The Hadoop cluster doesn't
    > have R installed and the admin won't install it.   I tried
    > a few things but the things I had tried didn't work. Are
    > there any options to configure or PATHs I could use to do
    > this?  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks,Tom [[alternative
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