Dear Simon, Many thanks for all additional detail and insight into your practice using rhome and symlinks. Much appreciated!
Best, Tobias ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Simon Urbanek" <simon.urba...@r-project.org> > To: "Tobias Verbeke" <tobias.verb...@openanalytics.eu> > Cc: r-devel@r-project.org > Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 3:45:41 AM > Subject: Re: [Rd] regenerate Rscript after moving R installation > > I forgot to mention that some packages bake-in paths as well, so even if you > fix both R and Rscript, it will still not work in general. > > On Sep 22, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Simon Urbanek <simon.urba...@r-project.org> > wrote: > > > On Sep 21, 2013, at 8:43 PM, Tobias Verbeke > > <tobias.verb...@openanalytics.eu> wrote: > > > >> L.S. > >> > >> In this bug report > >> > >> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14493#c1 > >> > >> it is mentioned that after moving an R installation > >> one should regenerate the Rscript executable. > >> > >> Is there an easy way to do so (after an R installation has been > >> moved)? > >> > > > > You cannot move installed R. Once you run make install, there are several > > places in which paths get baked in - mainly Rscript and the R start > > script. What I typically do for deployment on the Labs machines is to use > > make install rhome=<xxx> where <xxx> is some path that I can always create > > a symlink in (I also use DESTDIR so that path doesn't actually need to > > exist on the build machine and it avoid polluting --prefix which is not > > needed). That way you can move R wherever you want as long so you keep > > that one symlink up to date. > > > > Cheers, > > Simon > > > > > >> I have not found any information in the R installation and > >> administration manual. > >> > >> Many thanks in advance for any pointer. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> Tobias > >> > >> P.S. The background to this question is the usage of Rscript > >> calls in the Makevars files of some R packages on CRAN, so > >> the 'broken' Rscript prevents installation of certain R packages. > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Tobias Verbeke > >> Manager > >> > >> OpenAnalytics BVBA > >> Jupiterstraat 20 > >> 2600 Antwerp > >> Belgium > >> > >> E tobias.verb...@openanalytics.eu > >> M +32 499 36 33 15 > >> http://www.openanalytics.eu > >> > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > >> > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
