build R on cluster

build_R.md

svn co https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk R
cd R
tools/rsync-recommended
./configure
make

lots of info from here: http://pj.freefaculty.org/blog/?p=315

export PATH=$HOME/packages/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/packages/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export CFLAGS="-I$HOME/packages/include"
export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/packages/lib"

• readline http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/snapshot/readline-master.tar.gz

tar -xvf
cd
./configure --prefix=$HOME/packages
make 
make install

same for:

• zlib http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz

• bzip2 http://www.bzip.org/1.0.6/bzip2-1.0.6.tar.gz

special:

make -f Makefile-libbz2_so
make clean
make
make -n install PREFIX=$HOME/packages
make install PREFIX=$HOME/packages

• xz http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.2.2.tar.gz

special:

make -j3

• pcre ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.38.tar.gz

special:

./configure --enable-utf8 --prefix=$HOME/packages

• curl https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.47.1.tar.gz

special:

make -j3

• texinfo http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-6.3.tar.gz

• openssl https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.1.0c.tar.gz

special ./config --prefix=$HOME/packages

• libxml2 ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.9.4.tar.gz