On 11-12-05 4:03 PM, Peter Langfelder wrote:
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.
Besides what Peter said, I would suggest that you follow the
instructions for "simple compilation" in the document you cited. You
are doing way too much as a superuser. You don't need that at all if
you are the only user who needs this old version of R. If you need to
install it for others to use, then follow the instructions for
"installation" in that document, and let your users change their path to
select the R version.
Duncan Murdoch
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