On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 6:14 AM, Florian Oswald <florian.osw...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi all, > > i want to share an R installation from a master node to several compute > nodes via NFS. all nodes run ubuntu 16.04. I tried building R from source > but hit a wall several times because of missing dependencies.
apt-get build-dep r-base should take care of that. --Ista So I am > looking for something that uses the usual apt-get install proceedure, but > would place the installation in the non-standard location. For context, > right now I would have to share all of > > *root@master*:*~* whereis R > > R: /usr/bin/R /usr/lib/R /etc/R /usr/local/lib/R /usr/share/R > /usr/share/man/man1/R.1.gz > > and I would like to install R into a new folder on the master node, say, > NFS_share, and share just that. > > I found that `dpkg` has an option `--root=directory` to specify a non > standard install location for a debian package installation. but i'm not > even sure how this would work on ubuntu (can i install a debian packge on > ubuntu?!) > > thanks for any help! > florian > > [[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.
