On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Jannis <bt_jan...@yahoo.de> wrote: > Dear R users, > > > besides the current R 2.14 I would like to install a second version of R > (2.12.2) on my Ubuntu system. The current version is easily installed as a > precompiled package from Cran but I am heavily fighting with the older > version. I tried to follow the instructions here: > > http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html > > Unfortunately I got totally confused by all the different locations of the > script, the library and the rest of the program. As I understand these all > have to be different from the ones of the R 2.14 installation. In case > anybody could point me to some nice instructions, fell welcome to do so. > > > Otherwise we would need to check what went wrong during my try. I finally > managed to install R.2.12.2 but, as it seems, without Java correctly set up > and without tcltk support (both are needed). r-base-dev is installed. > > > This I what I did: > > 1. downloaded R.2.12.2.tar.gz from Cran > 2. tar -xzf R-2.12.2.tar.gz > 3. sudo cp R-2.12.2 /usr/lib > 4. cd /usr/lib/R.2.12.2 > 5. mkdir prog > 5. sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/bin > 6. sudo make prefix=/usr/lib/R-2.12.2/prog rhome=/usr/lib/R-2.12.2/library > > 7. sudo mv /usr/bin/R /usr/bin/R-2.12.2 > > > Most probably these two arguments for make are not correct as I did not fully > understand the instructions here. Additionally I would need to facilitate > tcl/tk and Java. Both works with R.2.14 so their dependecies should be > installed but I probably need some more arguments during the build for that. > Also this renaming of the R script seems arkward to me but I did this to > easily run "R-2.12.2" or "R-2.14" from the command line. > > > Does anybody have any advice on how to fix this stuff?
I think you did basically the right thing. To be able to compile R with tcl/tk, you have to install the development files for tcl/tk - on Fedora the files are contained in package tcl-devel (this is a Fedora/Ubuntu package, not an R package). Then run the entire compilation process (./configure, make, make install) again. When you install a pre-compiled R, you don't need the development files, which is probably why you never needed them in the past. I'm not sure about Java - you may want to examine the output of configure (which is usually saved in configure.log) to see what is missing. HTH, Peter ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
