Update R in Unix Shell

Hi,

Currently I am connecting my institute's server through unix shell to run R (My desktop is Windows). The version of R is 3.2.0. However, I want to update it to newer versions because ensembldb package does not work in 3.2.0.

When I googled which commands to use I always came up with the "sudo apt-get update" which is not working for my case as it is for ubuntu. Actually the admins downloaded the latest R to this "/mnt/software/src/R-3.3.1". But I do not know how to update R using that. I found the below code but If I run it, where is it going to install it ?

> cd /mnt/software/src/R-3.3.1
>./configure --prefix=/mnt/software/stow/R-3.3.1
>make
>make install

Sorry, I am really confused & clueless.

Best Regards,

Gokce

r update

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updated 9.3 years ago by Biostar

• written 9.9 years ago by gokce.ouz

Have you discussed with your sysadmins? Are they able to update the version for you? And if not, what are their reasons?

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written 9.9 years ago by Manuel Landesfeind

At the end I solved the problem by entering the full path of where the latest R version located.

Rather than just writing R to the console which is short cut to the R.3.2.0, I am writing /PATH/R-3.3.1 and run the latest version.

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written 9.9 years ago by gokce.ouz

2 answers

./configure --prefix=/mnt/software/stow/R-3.3.1

I suspect you need superuser rights to install in this location. If that is the case, and so you get a permission denied error, you could install instead in your home directory, like:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/R
make && make install

R will then be in ~/R/bin/

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written 9.9 years ago by dariober

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

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written 9.9 years ago by gokce.ouz

Your R will be located in:

/mnt/software/stow/R-3.3.1/bin/R

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written 9.9 years ago by Guangchuang Yu

Thanks for the clarification.

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written 9.9 years ago by gokce.ouz