Before installing Oracle R Distribution, verify that your version of IBM AIX is supported by Oracle R Enterprise, as described in the table of platform requirements in Oracle R Enterprise System Requirements. You can use this command to verify the version of IBM AIX:
uname -r
To install Oracle R Distribution on IBM AIX:
Go to the Oracle Open Source Software Download page for Oracle R Distribution.
Download the files for your installation, where Rversion is 3.3.0.0 for R-3.3.0:
ord.Rversion-aix.tar.gz ord-supporting-aix-Rversion.tar.gz
Uncompress and untar ord-supporting-aix-Rversion.tar.gz:
$ gunzip ord-supporting-aix-Rversion.tar.gz # get ord-supporting-aix-Rversion.tar $ tar -xvf ord-supporting-aix-Rversion.tar # extract contents of .tar file $ ls ord-supporting-aix-Rversion # list of rpms bash-4.2-5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm bzip2-1.0.6-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm bzip2-devel-1.0.6-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm cairo-1.10.0-1.aix5.2.ppc.rpm curl-7.28.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm curl-devel-7.28.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm expat-2.0.1-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm fontconfig-2.5.0-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm gettext-0.17-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm glib2-2.28.6-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm info-4.13a-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libiconv-1.14-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libidn-1.29-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libidn-devel-1.29-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libpng-1.5.9-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libpng-devel-1.5.9-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libssh2-1.4.3-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libssh2-devel-1.4.3-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm openldap-2.4.23-0.3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm openldap-devel-2.4.23-0.3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm openssl-1.0.1p-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm openssl-devel-1.0.1p-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm pcre-8.35-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm pcre-devel-8.35-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm pixman-0.28.2-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm pkg-config-0.25-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm readline-6.2-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm readline-devel-6.2-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm texinfo-4.13a-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm xrender-0.9.1-3.aix5.2.ppc.rpm xz-devel-5.0.7-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm xz-libs-5.0.7-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm zlib-1.2.6-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm zlib-devel-1.2.6-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
You can also download these RPMs from AIX Open Source Packages.
Install the RPMs as root using an rpm command:
$ cd /download_directory/ord-supporting-aix-Rversion
$ su
# rpm -i *.rpm
To upgrade existing dependencies, use:
# rpm -UF *.rpm
If you experience conflicts with dependencies, use:
# rpm -UF --nodeps *.rpm
Add /opt/freeware/lib64 and /opt/freeware/lib to the LIBPATH environment variable:
For ksh:
$ export LIBPATH=/opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib:$LIBPATH
For csh:
$ setenv LIBPATH /opt/freeware/lib64:/opt/freeware/lib:$LIBPATH
Ensure that /opt/freeware/lib64 is before /opt/freeware/lib and /opt/freeware/lib is before /usr/lib.
Uncompress ord-Rversion-aix.tar.gz to get ord-Rversion-aix.tar install.sh and uninstall.sh:
$ gunzip ord.Rversion-aix.tar.gz $ tar -xf ord.Rversion-aix.tar
Run install.sh as root to install the filesets in Oracle R Distribution:
In the following command, installation_path is the desired location for the Oracle R Distribution that is different than / and rte_package_name is the Oracle R Distribution fileset to install.
$ sudo ./install.sh rte_package_name installation_path
The path /opt/R is used if you do not specify an installation path.
The options for rte_package_name are:
| Option | Description |
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Install all of the filesets in Oracle R Distribution. |
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Installs only the |
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Installs only the |
The following command installs all of the filesets using the specified path:
$ sudo ./install.sh ORD /opt/R/3_3
The following commands install the ORD.core and ORE.devel filesets:
$ sudo ./install.sh ORD.core $ sudo ./install.sh ORD.devel
Add installation_path/usr/bin to the PATH environment variable:
For ksh:
$ export PATH=installation_path/usr/bin:$PATH
For csh:
$ setenv PATH installation_path/usr/bin:$PATH
Run ldd to ensure that shared library dependencies were picked up correctly:
$ ldd installation_path/usr/lib/R/bin/exec/R $ ldd installation_path/usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so (libiconv, libreadline) $ ldd installation_path/usr/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so $ ldd installation_path/usr/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so