Hi List, I have a question about uninstalling and installing R on linux, which I am new to.
> sessionInfo() R version 2.10.1 (2009-12-14) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8 [5] LC_MONETARY=C LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base First, I am trying to uninstall my old version of R with "make uninstall". [...@head4 ~/R-2.10.1]$ make uninstall make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/po' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/po' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tests' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tests' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/library' uninstalling packages ... /bin/sh: line 0: cd: /usr/local/lib64/R/library: No such file or directory subdir /usr/local/lib64/R/library not removed make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/library' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/modules' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/modules' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/main' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/main' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/unix' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/unix' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/nmath' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/nmath' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/appl' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/appl' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/extra' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/extra' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include' make[3]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include/R_ext' make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include/R_ext' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/include' make[2]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/scripts' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src/scripts' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/src' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/share' uninstalling share ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/share' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/etc' uninstalling etc ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/etc' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/doc' uninstalling doc ... make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/doc' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tools' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/tools' make[1]: Entering directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/m4' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `uninstall'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/merlin/jh1/R-2.10.1/m4' This has not worked for me, meaning I can still use R, so instead I removed the directory rm -fR R-2.10.1 Is one method preferable to another. And what am I doing incorrectly with "make uninstall"? My second question is about installation. I just installed the new version for Windows,and it took a few minutes. On linux, I downloaded the R tar.gz file tar xzvf R-2.9.1.tar.gz (old command) ./configure make make check This process takes about 2 hours. I'm curious about the time it takes, and wondering if I am doing any incorrectly? Thanks, Juliet ______________________________________________ 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.