Building R - linux-on-ibm-z/docs GitHub Wiki
Building R
Below versions of R are available in respective distributions at the time of creation of these build instructions:
- Ubuntu 20.04 has
3.6.3
- Ubuntu 22.04 has
4.1.2
- Ubuntu 23.10 has
4.3.1
- Ubuntu 24.04 has
4.3.3
- SLES 12 SP5 has
3.2.5
- SLES 15 SP5 has
4.2.2
- RHEL (8.8, 8.9, 8.10, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4) have
4.4.1
The instructions provided below specify the steps to build R version 4.4.1 on Linux on IBM Z for following distributions:
- SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP5)
- Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 23.10, 24.04)
General Notes:
- When following the steps low please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.
- A directory
/<source_root>/
will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.
Step 1. Build using script
If you want to build R manually, go to step 2.
Use the following commands to build R using the build script. Please make sure you have wget installed.
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-on-ibm-z/scripts/master/R/4.4.1/build_r.sh
# Build R
bash build_r.sh [Provide -t option for executing build along with tests]
If the build completes successfully, go to step 3.2. In case of error, check logs
for more details or go to step 2 to follow manual build steps.
Step 2. Build and Install
2.1) Install dependencies
-
SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP5)
sudo zypper install -y curl libnghttp2-devel wget tar rpm-build help2man zlib-devel xz-devel libyui-ncurses-devel make cairo-devel gcc-c++ gcc-fortran libcurl-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel libtiff-devel readline-devel fdupes texlive-helvetic texlive-metafont texlive-psnfss texlive-times xdg-utils pango-devel tcl tk xorg-x11-devel perl-macros texinfo texlive-ae texlive-fancyvrb
-
Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 23.10, 24.04)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install -y wget tar gcc g++ ratfor gfortran libx11-dev make r-base libcurl4-openssl-dev locales
2.3) Set Environment Variables
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
Note: Make sure /usr/local/bin
and /sbin
are available in PATH
environment variable.
2.4) Download R source code
export SOURCE_ROOT=/<source_root>
cd $SOURCE_ROOT
wget https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/R-4.4.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf R-4.4.1.tar.gz
2.5) Build and Install R
cd $SOURCE_ROOT
mkdir build && cd build
../R-4.4.1/configure --with-x=no --with-pcre1 --disable-java
make
sudo make install
Note: Packages such as rJava and JavaGD requires Java8+ to be installed on the host system. To enable these use --enable-java
with above configure command.
Step 3: Testing(Optional)
3.1) Execute test cases
-
For SLES (12 SP5, 15 SP5)
cd $SOURCE_ROOT/build sudo zypper install -y texlive-courier texlive-dvips export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" make check
-
For Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04, 23.10, 24.04)
cd $SOURCE_ROOT/build sudo apt-get install -y texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra sudo locale-gen "en_US.UTF-8" sudo locale-gen "en_GB.UTF-8" export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" make check
3.2) Check for version of R-package installed
echo "sessionInfo()" | R --save