You need to adjust your PATH environment variable so that the /path_of_my_home/R/bin comes ahead of the system R/bin directory. (Or you can simply remove the system R/bin and substitute your own R/bin.
W. ________________________________________ From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Daofeng Li [lid...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 June 2009 15:28 To: Paul Hiemstra Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] [R-help] how to install own R withour root? Hi, i had intstalled R in my home directory and i can run the new install R from /path_of_my_home/R/bin/R but when i type R, it runs the system installed older R 2.4 can i just type an R command and it runs my new installed R? Thanks! On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Paul Hiemstra <p.hiems...@geo.uu.nl> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Drs. Paul Hiemstra > Department of Physical Geography > Faculty of Geosciences > University of Utrecht > Heidelberglaan 2 > P.O. Box 80.115 > 3508 TC Utrecht > Phone: +3130 274 3113 Mon-Tue > Phone: +3130 253 5773 Wed-Fri > http://intamap.geo.uu.nl/~paul > > -- Daofeng Li,PhD Candidate China Agricultural University [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list 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 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.
