Dear Loris and Wolfgang, thanks a lot for the help! I wasn't aware of the module project. I'd rather use the "official" way of having co-existent R versions in this case, but is a good tool to know!
Thanks again for the help! Cheers, Luca On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Wolfgang Raffelsberger <wolfgang.raffelsber...@gmail.com> wrote: > check out the official document > *R Installation and Administration* > from https://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html > There you'll find how to define a specific path for each installation. > > (Since a number of years I administrate multiple versions of R at different > platforms, of course including Linux) > > Wolfgang > > 2015-10-07 9:04 GMT+02:00 Loris Bennett <loris.benn...@fu-berlin.de>: > >> Dear Luca, >> >> Luca Cerone <luca.cer...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Dear all, >> > on one shared machine we have an older R version installed. Some packages >> > have known issues with that version that are fixed in newer R versions. >> > >> > Since that is a production machine with many jobs running we would like >> to >> > keep things as they are. However I would also like to keep advantage of >> the >> > newest version and the bug fixes introduced. >> > >> > What would be the best way to install a newer version along the one that >> > already exists? Is it possible to install it for a specific user only? >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Luca >> >> If you are on a Unix-like platform, a standard way of dealing with >> multiple versions of a piece of software installed in parallel is >> "Environment Modules": >> >> http://modules.sourceforge.net/ >> >> Packages for various Linux distributions are available. >> >> You could make a version available for a specific user by setting >> appropriate file permissions of the module file which is used to set up >> the environment. However, I would consider this a somewhat unusual >> configuration. If you are worried about people using the wrong version >> by mistake, you can either have the standard version available without >> using modules, or you can define a default version within the modules >> setup. >> >> 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. >> > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
