Hello Lionel, Lionel SPINELLI <spine...@ciml.univ-mrs.fr> writes:
> Hello all, >> > I am looking for information on how to install R on a network disk so > that it can be used by several users mounting this network disk from > different computers. > > We are using a cluster and shared computers in my lab. Those machines > can mount network disks. On those disks we have installed several > tools, like samtools that can be used from any user and from any > machine since they have installs that do no required any system > libraries. > > We would like to do the same thing with R: have a folder in the > network disk that contains R (and its libraries) and that permits to > execute it from any machine that mount the network disk. However, it > seems R uses system libraries since, once the installation done we > obtain the following message when trying to execute it from a > different machine than the one from which R was installed: > > error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.52: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > This library seems present on the machine executing R but seems not > found the same. We did not found any info on how to set a lib path in > order to put that library with the R install. > > Do you know any reference that explain how to successfully achieved > the R install as we would like to? > > > Thanks a lot in advance You could try building a static version, but as described here https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2010-May/057534.html that may not be very easy. If you really want to run R across a very heterogeneous cluster, it might be more practical to just install the same version of R directly on each machine and the install only R packages to the network share, e.g. install.packages("Rmpi","/my/network/share/R/3.2.0/site-library") You will then need a line like .libPaths( c( .libPaths(), "/my/network/share/R/3.2.0/site-library" ) in a file such as /usr/lib64/R/etc/Rprofile.site to enable R to find the packages. HTH Loris -- This signature is currently under construction. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
