[R-sig-Debian] Having both R-current and R-devel installed on Ubuntu

[Liviu Andronic]

Hi Dirk,
I too would need to get R-devel on my Ubuntu box (alongside an
existing R installation) to check my packages, especially given the
mayhem that awaits us when the new `R CMD check --as-cran` goes live.
( http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/doc/html/NEWS.html )

I was wondering if the script that you posted on r-sig-debian a couple
years back was still valid. More however, I'd like to know if you ever
considered/worked on putting this script into proper 'debian'
packaging instructions? If such existed, it would be easy enough to
mirror the R repo on Launchpad and then provide daily builds of
r-devel on a PPA (in view of independent installation from stable R
packages).

Any ideas on this? Regards,
Liviu


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Søren,
>
> On 8 August 2012 at 20:38, Søren Højsgaard wrote:
> | Dear List,
> |
> | Having used R on Windows for years, I have recently installed Ubuntu as a virtual machine. I admit that I am quite new to the linux world.
>
> Good :)  It's even better once you "host" on Linux as Linux is generally
> better with limited resources.
>
> | Installing R (current version = 2.15.1) went smoothly, but I would like to have both the current version of R and R-devel installed. I've searched the net for info on doing this but so far without luck.
>
> I hope you found the README on CRAN to get you the prebuilt version. That is
> the way many of us find most convenient to get "r-release" up and going.
>
> | Can anyone help me getting this up and running?
> |
> | A related question: How do I upgrade the current version of R to the patched versions?
>
> R-devel and R-patched can only be had from source, and not from a .deb
> because I never reorganised the packaging to allow for multiple versions.
>
> But because CRAN makes us check against R-devel, it is of use to have it.  So
> I keep a svn checkout and every few weeks build locally via a little script
> which carries over a few of the configuration choices I make for the Debian /
> Ubuntu package (plus memory debugging from when Doug and I were chasing
> something).  Followed by 'make install', this puts R into /usr/local/lib/R-devel
> which is then completely off the PATH and does not affect normal R.
>
> I then use this via a second script ~/bin/R-devel.sh which calls it. Also
> below.
>
> Hope this helps, Dirk
>
>
> ## --snip here ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ## ~/bin/build-R-devel
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> cd ~/svn/r-devel
>
> # R_PAPERSIZE=letter                            \
> # R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore"          \
> # R_BROWSER=xdg-open                            \
> # PAGER=/usr/bin/pager                          \
> # PERL=/usr/bin/perl                            \
> # R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip                     \
> # R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip                         \
> # R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr                               \
> # LIBnn=lib                                     \
> # AWK=/usr/bin/awk                                \
> # CC="ccache gcc"                                       \
> # CFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -DTESTING_WRITE_BARRIER" \
> # CXX="ccache g++"                              \
> # CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -std=c++0x -pipe -Wall -pedantic" \
> # FC="ccache gfortran"                          \
> # FCFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic"         \
> # F77="ccache gfortran"                         \
> # FFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic"          \
> # MAKE="make -j4"                                       \
> # ./configure                                   \
> #     --prefix=/usr/local/lib/R-devel           \
> #     --enable-R-shlib                          \
> #     --enable-strict-barrier                   \
> #     --with-blas                               \
> #     --with-lapack                             \
> #     --with-readline                           \
> #     --without-recommended-packages
>
> R_PAPERSIZE=letter                              \
> R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore"            \
> R_BROWSER=xdg-open                              \
> PAGER=/usr/bin/pager                            \
> PERL=/usr/bin/perl                              \
> R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip                       \
> R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip                           \
> R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr                         \
> LIBnn=lib                                       \
> AWK=/usr/bin/awk                                \
> CC="ccache gcc"                                 \
> CFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic" \
> CXX="ccache g++"                                \
> CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic"          \
> FC="ccache gfortran"                            \
> F77="ccache gfortran"                           \
> MAKE="make -j4"                                 \
> ./configure                                     \
>     --prefix=/usr/local/lib/R-devel             \
>     --enable-R-shlib                            \
>     --with-blas                                 \
>     --with-lapack                               \
>     --with-readline                             \
>     --without-recommended-packages
>
> #CC="clang -O3"                                  \
> #CXX="clang++ -03"                              \
>
>
> #make svnonly
> make
>
> echo "*** Done -- now run 'make install'"
>
>
>
>
> ## --snip here ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ## ~/bin/R-devel.sh
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> export R_LIBS_SITE=${R_LIBS_SITE-'/usr/lib/R-devel/lib/R/library:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library::/usr/lib/R/library'}
> export PATH="/usr/local/lib/R-devel/bin:$PATH"
> R "$@"
>
> --
> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
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