====== Installing R 2.14 from Source ====== 

This guide is written fun the Sun Tsessbe Cluster, login node. Its recommended that you make you use of temporary or scratch directory to do all the compilation in (i.e. ~/scratch or /tmp/$USER), as to save disk space in your home directory. Note that for this guide, all binary and libraries are installed home directory, i.e prefix=$HOME.

If you dont have GCC installed in your home directory, Add the following lines to the end of your .bashrc file
  export PATH=/opt/gridware/gcc-4.3/bin:$PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/gridware/gcc-4.3/lib64/:/opt/gridware/gcc-4.3/lib/:$HOME/lib
  export F77=gfortran
Logout and log in again,
  $ gcc --version
    gcc (GCC) 4.3.4
    
===== Download R Source =====
  
  $ cd ~/scratch
  $ wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-2/R-2.14.0.tar.gz
  $ tar -xf R-2.14.0.tar.gz 
  $ cd R-2.14.0/
  
===== Configure =====

For a bare-bones installation
  $ mkdir BUILD
  $ cd BUILD
  $ ../configure --prefix=$HOME --without-system-zlib --without-system-xz --without-cairo --without-libpng --without-jpeglib --disable-openmp --disable-largefile --disable-nls
  
===== Build / Make =====

  $ make
  
if the process is interrupted, try make again to so if the error persists.

===== Check =====

  $make check
  
===== Install =====

  $ make install  
  
restore you .bashrc file

For you jobs to run on the worker nodes, you may need to copy some shared libraries to your lib directory
  $ cd $HOME/lib
  $ cp /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2 ./