[R-sig-Debian] Having both R-current and R-devel installed on Ubuntu
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Sat Aug 29 17:44:23 CEST 2015
On 29 August 2015 at 17:14, Liviu Andronic wrote:
| 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
Yes. I update R-devel about weekly as I too need to check my packages.
| considered/worked on putting this script into proper 'debian'
| packaging instructions? If such existed, it would be easy enough to
I think about it a bit, but I just do not have the time and bandwith to
i) completely rewrite debian/* for the r-base package
ii) to become accomodating of two R interpreters
iii) in a way that is seemless and does not introduce bugs in the transition
| 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,
There is an easier way.
Install docker, either via the docker.io package or (as I do now) via the apt
repo docker.com offers. I maintain two images
rocker/drd "Daily R-devel" -- a little smaller, deletes build deps
rocker/r-devel r-devel builds
you can use 'as is'.
Or you can use the script you mentioned. I mostly do the latter.
Dirk
| 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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