Installation of package ‘RcppGSL’ without sudo install

[Leitemfa]

Hi,

I have a similar problem as discussed in the past (#26) that I can not solve with sudo install since I do not have admin priviliges.

install.packages("RcppGSL")
Installing package into ‘/home/nioo/marciol/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/RcppGSL_0.3.10.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 469346 bytes (458 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 458 KB

* installing *source* package ‘RcppGSL’ ...
** package ‘RcppGSL’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for gsl-config... no
configure: error: gsl-config not found, is GSL installed?
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RcppGSL’
* removing ‘/home/nioo/marciol/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0/RcppGSL’
* restoring previous ‘/home/nioo/marciol/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0/RcppGSL’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘RcppGSL’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpgKvG95/downloaded_packages’

I can install GSL within a conda environment (/home/nioo/marciol/.conda/pkgs/gsl-2.7-he838d99_0/), but how can I tell the install.packages function that there is a path to find the GSL config file?

R.Version()
$platform "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

$arch "x86_64"

$os "linux-gnu"

$system "x86_64, linux-gnu"

$status ""

$major "4"

$minor "0.1"

$year "2020"

$month "06"

$day  "06"

$`svn rev` "78648"

$language "R"

$version.string "R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06)"

$nickname "See Things Now"

.libPaths()
"/home/nioo/marciol/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0"
"/opt/R/4.0.1/lib/R/library"  

[eddelbuettel]

On Unix, just like on other OS, R simply calls into the $PATH setting. So if you can only install the GSL somewhere local (say below your $HOME) then you can "simply" install an appropriate gsl-config in, say, ~/bin. R will find it, use it, and just build the package.

The issue is 100% at your end, and entirely addressable at your end.

(An even simpler fix is to unpack the package you want to install and to hand-edit its src/Makevars based on what gsl-config would have told it. But you have to repeat that on each installation or upgrade involving RcppGSL)

[eddelbuettel]

Als you simply cannot mix Conda and normal R. You can use Conda, but then you have use everything from Conda including R itself.

[eddelbuettel]

Closing for lack of follow-up. Feel free to reopen with new and pertinent information.