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.

Also note that for this guide, all binary and libraries are installed home directory, i.e prefix=$HOME. 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/