Update R in Unix Shell

Question

[gokce.ouz]

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

Answer 1

[dariober]

./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/

[gokce.ouz]

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

Answer 2

[Guangchuang Yu]

Your R will be located in:

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

[gokce.ouz]

Thanks for the clarification.