Installing the R interpeter and R as a shared library uder the same tree
installation, r, rpy2, shared-libraries
Solution
./configure --enable-R-shlib
Will tell to build R's shared libraries in addition to what is normally built (the executable, the documentation, etc...)
Also
make install
will install R (default is `/usr/local`). This is where you'll want to find your R executable. Calling `make distclean` will only affect the build directory, not the installed R.
Problem
I am a bit confused about how to install R (via compilation) as a shared library. The instructions here (Rpy2) say that I should do the following: ``` # <go to the R source directory> make distclean ./configure --enable-R-shlib make make install ``` but the first `make` (`make distclean`) would remove any previous installation of R under the same directory tree (e.g. the contents of the `bin` folder). What if I want to use the same installation for the R interpreter and the shared libraries? For example, say I want to use the interpreter to install R packages, and then the shared library of the installation to call R (and those packages) from Rpy2. Otherwise, how can I install R packages for use through Rpy2?