Hi,
In addition. You can also install everything just in your home drive.
Using the configure script you can change the installation path of all R
related stuff:
./configure --prefix=/home/bla/progsandlibs
The binaries end up in ~/progsandlibs/bin, and the libraries in
~/progsandlibs/bin. If you use this consistently with all the programs
you install using ./configure and add progsandlibs to you $PATH, you can
install all the software in your home drive with no difference in
functionality.
cheers,
Paul
Patrick Connolly wrote:
On Tue, 09-Jun-2009 at 11:50AM +0800, Daofeng Li wrote:
|> Dear list members,
|>
|> i am currently want to install Rpy2 in a linux box which has R 2.4.0
|> installed
|> RPy requries R 2.7.0 or above
|> but i have no root previlleges
|> so my question is how to install R 2.7.0 on my own directory?
You might as well install R-2.9.0 while you're at it.
|> and replace the system installed R 2.4.0 when i input R command from the
|> bash Shell?
You can download the R-2.9.0.tar.gz to a directory you have access to.
I'll call it ~/Rhome/
uncompress the file with
tar xvzf R-2.9.0.tar.gz
and then move to the R-2.9.0 subdirectory that will be created.
In that directory, you'll find a file called INSTALL which will give
you very simple clear directions. Don't try to make a site-wide
installation which isn't appropriate in your case.
The executable will be at
~/Rhome/R-2.9.0/bin/R
Assuming you have a ~/bin directory, I find the simplest thing is to
make a link in that directory to the executable.
Now the part that might be slightly tricky. If you can't get someone
with root access to remove the R-2.4.0 installation, it's simple
enough to prevent it clashing with your newer version. Make the name
of the link in ~/bin/ something slightly different from R, such as RR
or whatever you fancy. You then start R with that name.
HTH
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University of Utrecht
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