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
  

$ 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/

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

$ make

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

$make check

$ 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 ./