[R] Compiling R with zlib in non-standard location

[David Chin]

Hi Marc,

Pre-compiled RPMs for R are up to 3x slower than "self-compiled" R using
Intel MKL.  Yes, I do know about Microsoft R Open, but it wants to
overwrite the default /usr/bin/R and I have AMD machines in my cluster,
which cannot run MRO. So, I want to do my own compilation and install R in
a non-standard location so that it can be used by loading a modulefile.  I
also have users who have varying requirements for versions of R (for
whatever reason), so I need to provide different versions.



On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at me.com>
wrote:

>
> > On May 23, 2017, at 11:07 AM, David Chin <david.chin.work at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am trying to compile R 3.4.0 on a RHEL 6.5 system. R requires a newer
> > version of zlib than is standard on RHEL 6.5. I do have a newer version
> > that satisfies R's requirement, but the configure script gives no way of
> > specifying a non-standard location of zlib.
> >
> > Is there a way around this? Or should I try to make a feature request?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >    Dave
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This was recently asked here:
>
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-April/074157.html
>
> Martyn provided a resolution in the follow up post, including a pointer to
> the EPEL, where there are pre-compiled RPMs for R.
>
> For future reference, there is a dedicated e-mail list for queries
> pertaining to R on RH/Fedora based distributions:
>
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora
>
> Regards,
>
> Marc Schwartz
>
>


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