R installation script

installR.sh

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    WHICH=patched
else
    WHICH=$1
fi

## (1) set up variables
case $WHICH in
    patched)
	rtgz=R-patched.tar.bz2
	rsrc=R-patched
	pre=/opt/Rpatched/
	echo "*** Installing R-patched in " $pre " ***"
	;;
    devel)
	rtgz=R-devel.tar.bz2
	rsrc=R-devel
	pre=/opt/Rdevel/
	echo "*** Installing R-devel in " $pre " ***"
	;;
    *)
	echo "*** Installing either patched or devel ***"
	exit 1
esac


tmp=$(mktemp -d)
cd $tmp
echo "*** Temp dir " $tmp " ***"



## (2) Get code, make and install
wget ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/$rtgz
tar xjf $rtgz
cd $rsrc

./configure --prefix=$pre --with-jpeglib --with-libpng --with-lapack --with-blas --with-tcltk --with-recommended-packages --enable-R-profiling --enable-memory-profiling --with-cairo  --enable-R-shlib  --enable-R-static-lib

make
make pdf info

## I prefer to make sure that $pre is owned by root and sudo install,
## to be sure that all user-installed packages get installed in
## $HOME/R.
sudo make install
sudo make install-pdf install-info

## (3) clean up after installing
cd ..
rm -rf $tmp

## Alternatively, checking out svn directly
## from http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00165.html
# mkdir src/
# cd src
# svn checkout https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/ R-devel
# R-devel/tools/rsync-recommended
# cd ../
# mkdir -p bin/R-devel
# cd bin/R-devel
# ~/src/R-devel/configure && make -j

## see alse
## https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-February/065886.html
# svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk R-devel
# cd R-devel/
# tools/rsync-recommended
# ./configure
# make

## http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/the-case-of-building-R-snapshot-without-svn-nor-network-connection-td4661550.htm