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Ubuntu build instructions
Winston Chang edited this page Feb 19, 2014
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This page tells how to install a development version of R alongside a normal installation of R. The development version can be invoked with the command RD
.
These instructions are derived from the instructions on Michael Rutter's blog.
First, make sure the needed packages are installed:
sudo apt-get build-dep r-base
sudo apt-get install subversion ccache texlive texlive-fonts-extra texlive-latex-extra
As root, create a file named /usr/local/bin/RD
with the following contents.
#!/bin/bash
# Setting this actually seems to cause problems, so comment out for now
# export R_LIBS_SITE=${R_LIBS_SITE-'/usr/lib/R-devel/lib/R/library:/usr/local/lib/R/site-library:/usr/lib/R/site-library::/usr/lib/R/library'}
export PATH="/usr/local/lib/R-devel/bin:$PATH"
R "$@"
Also make sure to make it executable:
sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/RD
Run these commands in the r-source directory (after cloning the r-source git repository):
# Get recommended packages if necessary
tools/rsync-recommended
R_PAPERSIZE=letter \
R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore" \
R_BROWSER=xdg-open \
PAGER=/usr/bin/pager \
PERL=/usr/bin/perl \
R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip \
R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip \
R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr \
LIBnn=lib \
AWK=/usr/bin/awk \
CC="ccache gcc" \
CFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic" \
CXX="ccache g++" \
CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic" \
FC="ccache gfortran" \
F77="ccache gfortran" \
MAKE="make" \
./configure \
--prefix=/usr/local/lib/R-devel \
--enable-R-shlib \
--with-blas \
--with-lapack \
--with-readline
#CC="clang -O3" \
#CXX="clang++ -03" \
# Workaround for explicit SVN check introduced by
# https://github.com/wch/r-source/commit/4f13e5325dfbcb9fc8f55fc6027af9ae9c7750a3
# Need to build FAQ
(cd doc/manual && make front-matter html-non-svn)
rm -f non-tarball
# Get current SVN revsion from git log and save in SVN-REVISION
echo -n 'Revision: ' > SVN-REVISION
git log --format=%B -n 1 \
| grep "^git-svn-id" \
| sed -E 's/^git-svn-id: https:\/\/svn.r-project.org\/R\/.*?@([0-9]+).*$/\1/' \
>> SVN-REVISION
echo -n 'Last Changed Date: ' >> SVN-REVISION
git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ad" --date=iso | cut -d' ' -f1 >> SVN-REVISION
# End workaround
# Set this to the number of cores on your computer
make --jobs=4
sudo make install
At this point, typing RD
and pressing enter should start up the newly-compiled version of R.
If the build fails and you are unable to build again, run make distclean
. (You may need to run ./configure
first.)