On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 7:33 AM Berwin A Turlach <berwin.turl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > G'day Rolf, > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 23:34:38 +1200 > Rolf Turner <r.tur...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > > > I guess I should have said --- I did > > > > sudo make prefix=/usr install > > > > which puts stuff into /usr rather than into /usr/local. > > ??? > > I do not remember ever specifying "prefix=foo" at the make install > stage. Not for any software that uses autoconf &c. > > I thought the prefix should be specified to ./configure and after that > just > make > make check > make install > > I am pretty sure that the location of RHOME is set by the path > specified (explicitly or implicitly) to ./configure. If you then > install R at another location with your construct, some problems seem > to be pre-programmed. But I could be wrong.
The manual, specifically https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Installation documents this way of choosing the installation directory. Peter ______________________________________________ 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.
