>>>>> Jeff Newmiller via R-help
>>>>> on Thu, 09 Nov 2023 12:08:07 -0800 writes:
> No clue. Tip: R-devel is the mailing list for anything
> related to development versions of R. Off-topic here.
Yes. Alternatively, as he uses Debian, there's the
R-SIG-Debian mailing list, too.
--> I'm CC'ing both R-devel and R-SIG-Debian instead of R-help.
> On November 9, 2023 2:59:44 AM PST, "Iago Giné Vázquez"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I downloaded R-devel as explicited in
https://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html
>> Then, I tried to install it through instructions in
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-devel/R-admin.html#Installation
>> (taking into account also
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2016-May/072777.html)
>> So:
>> export REPOS=https://svn.r-project.org/R
>> export RTOP=~ #adjust as necessary
>> cd $RTOP
>> svn co $REPOS/trunk r-devel/R
>> cd r-devel/R
>> tools/rsync-recommended
>> mkdir ../build-R
>> cd ../build-R
>> ../R/configure --prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go
>> make
>> make check
all fine till here.
I never do the following two (they are not necessary, if you
keep your .../r-devel/build-R/ directory and symlink the
.../r-devel/build-R/bin/R to some <in_our_PATH>/R-devel
{which is what I do all the time; by that I can easily symlink
to more than one of different R-devel-<foo> versions etc}
Still I cannot believe that these are the problem.
>> make install
>> make install-tests
>> cd tests
>> ## followed by one of
>> ../bin/R CMD make check
>> ../bin/R CMD make check-devel
I've never used ../bin/R CMD make check
instead of simply make check
(which you already did earlier),
and ditto replacing 'check' with 'check-devel'.
But even if I do that now, I don't get your error,
*and* I have not made use of an Rprofile.site for a very long time
(and do *not* have any inside (my variant of your) build-R/
>> And here I get the following error
>> checking package 'base'
>> Error in file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>> cannot open the connection
>> Calls: source -> file
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In file(filename, "r", encoding = encoding) :
>> cannot open file '.../etc/Rprofile.site': No such file or directory
>> Execution halted
You must have forgotten to tell us a bit more about your setup.
I never get the above error,
and I do *not* have an Rprofile.site either in my <build-R>/etc/
Have you by chance set an R_LIBS_SITE or similar environment
variable ?
Does
env | grep '^R_'
give a hint?
>> where the dots ... specify the path to the build-R folder where R-devel
was built. And I check the etc folder and indeed there is no the Rprofile.site
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 209 Nov 9 08:27 javaconf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 770 Nov 9 08:35 ldpaths
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 6672 Nov 9 08:35 Makeconf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 3336 Nov 9 08:27 Makefile
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 1853 Nov 9 08:27 Renviron
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 iago iago 1173 Nov 9 08:32 repositories
>> I note that make install installed R in the path I specified in
../R/configure --prefix=/where/you/want/R/to/go
>> however
>> 1. make install-tests installed the tests folder in build-R .
Are your sure? I don't see how it would do this when I do
make -n install-tests
(the `-n` "simulates" the make and tells you what make *would* do if you left
away the `-n`)
Rather it would (try to) install to the same place that
make -n install
would do , namely the $PREFIX/tests/ directory.
Maybe you are just confused, because indeed, your
.../build-R/tests/ directory also contains many of the files
needed for the tests {but not e.g. the crucial *.R ones !}.
>> 2. In the installed R in /where/you/want/R/to/go, there is no even etc
folder, there are only the folders bin, lib and share.
>> Am I skipping some step? I am on Debain 12.
Deb*ia*n {Debora(h) + Ian }
Could it be that the Debian/Ubuntu default (for *their* build of
/usr/bin/R ) where they indeed use an Rprofile.site and hence
that Debian-specific setup is hurting you here in some way?
I'm close to sure that Debian users may be able to help you one
step further.
Martin
>> Thank you!
>> Iago
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