Build R from source locally

build-r.sh

#!/bin/bash

set -e # stop on error


cd ~/github/r-devel/r-svn



# reset
# rm -rf  cran.rstudio.com  src/library/Recommended/*

export R_CRAN_WEB="https://cran.rstudio.com"

git reset --hard
git clean -fdx
git config --global --add safe.directory $PWD || true

./.github/scripts/wget-recommended.sh
sed -i.bak 's|$(GIT) svn info|./.github/scripts/svn-info.sh|' Makefile.in

./.github/scripts/svn-info.sh


export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/X11/lib/pkgconfig"

# seems -O0 is prefered over -Og

# LIBnn='lib' \
CFLAGS='-g -O0' \
CXXFLAGS='-g -O0' \
FFLAGS='-g -O0' \
CC=clang \
FC='/opt/gfortran/bin/gfortran' \
LDFLAGS='-L/opt/R/arm64/lib -L/opt/X11/lib -L/opt/homebrew/lib' \
CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/R/arm64/include -I/opt/X11/include -I/opt/homebrew/include' \
./configure --prefix=$(realpath ../r-build) \
  --enable-R-shlib

  # --with-blas --with-lapack --disable-java

make -j9

rm -rf ./r-build
rm -rf ../r-build
mkdir ../r-build
make install


# make -j9 && rm -rf ./r-build && make install

# # cd ..

# ../r-build/bin/Rscript -e \
#   'install.packages(c("remotes", "rcmdcheck"), repos = "https://cran.rstudio.com/", Ncpus = 2L)'

# ../r-build/bin/Rscript -e \
#   'remotes::install_local("../S7", dependencies = TRUE, Ncpus = 2L, force = TRUE)'

# ../r-build/bin/Rscript -e \
#   'rcmdcheck::rcmdcheck("../S7", args = c("--no-manual", "--as-cran"), error_on = "warning")'

make check-all

# make -j9 && make install

The above is just an ad-hoc script. Some more comprehensive approaches:

• https://github.com/lionel-/contributing/issues/11
• https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/git-r
• https://github.com/r-devel/r-svn/blob/main/.github/examples/build-r-macos.sh