Install Oracle R Distribution on Linux in a Non-Default R_HOME
Beginning with Oracle R Distribution 3.3.0, the Linux RPMs can be installed to a directory other than the default Linux R_HOME
, /usr/lib64/R
.
The procedure in the following example installs the Oracle R Distribution 3.3.0 RPMs to a non-default location and still allows the user to invoke the previously installed version, R-3.2.0.
The example installs the RPMs into the directory /opt/R330
. It installs the following RPMs:
R-3.3.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
R-core-3.3.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
R-core-extra-3.3.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
R-devel-3.3.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
libRmath-3.3.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
libRmath-devel-3.3.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
libRmath-static-3.3.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
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From the directory that contains the RPMs, install the Oracle R Distribution 3.3.0 RPMs to a non-default location using the
--prefix
flag:# rpm -i *.rpm --prefix=/opt/R330
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Set
R_HOME
to the R-3.3.0 location and add$R_HOME/bin
toPATH
:# export R_HOME=/opt/R330/lib64/R
# export PATH=$R_HOME/bin:$PATH
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Invoke the newly installed R-3.3.0. If you receive the following error, then add
$R_HOME/port/Linux-X64/lib
toLD_LIBRARY_PATH
so R recognizes the correct versions of thepcre
,zlib
,xz
, andbzip
libraries:# R
/opt/R330/lib64/R/bin/exec/R: error while loading shared libraries: libpcre.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$R_HOME/port/Linux-X64/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# R
Oracle Distribution of R version 3.3.0 (--) -- "Supposedly Educational" Copyright (C) The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)...
If you still want to use the previous version of R, rename the default R executable /usr/bin/R
to the old R version; for example, /usr/bin/R-3.2.0
:
# mv /usr/bin/R /usr/bin/R-3.2.0
Now you can invoke R 3.2.0:
# R-3.2.0
Oracle Distribution of R version 3.2.0 (--) -- "Full of Ingredients"
Copyright (C) The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)...