INSTALLING R UNDER UNIX This document concerns building and installing R from sources. Pre-made binaries are made available for some systems with varying regularity and can be obtained from CRAN (see the RESOURCES file). The main source of information on installation is the `R Installation and Administration Manual', an HTML copy of which is available as file `doc/html/R-admin.html'. Please read that before installing R. But if you are impatient, read on but please refer to the manual to resolve any problems. (If you obtained R using Subversion, the manual is at doc/manual/R-admin.texi.) SIMPLE COMPILATION As you are reading this file, you have unpacked the R sources and are presumably in the top directory. Issue the following commands: ./configure make (If your make is not called `make', set the environment variable MAKE to its name, and use that name throughout these instructions.) This will take a while, giving you time to read `R-admin.html'. Then check the built system worked correctly, by make check and make the manuals by (as many options as preferred from) make dvi to create DVI versions make pdf to create PDF versions make info to create info files However, please read the notes in `R-admin.html' about making the reference manual. INSTALLATION You do not need to install R to run it: you can run R by the script `bin/R' which you can link or copy to any convenient place in your path. For a site-wide installation, use make install make install-dvi make install-info make install-pdf choosing to install the manuals that you made. This installs to the default location (typically `/usr/local') for your platform: see the Installation and Administration Manual for other options.