build-R-base-on-git

build-R-based-on-git

# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install git
# sudo apt-get build-dep r-base

# about 350MB as of R 3.2.0
git clone https://github.com/wch/r-source.git
cd r-source

R_PAPERSIZE=letter                              \
R_BATCHSAVE="--no-save --no-restore"            \
R_BROWSER=xdg-open                              \
PAGER=/usr/bin/pager                            \
PERL=/usr/bin/perl                              \
R_UNZIPCMD=/usr/bin/unzip                       \
R_ZIPCMD=/usr/bin/zip                           \
R_PRINTCMD=/usr/bin/lpr                         \
LIBnn=lib                                       \
AWK=/usr/bin/awk                                \
CC="ccache gcc"                                 \
CFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic" \
CXX="ccache g++"                                \
CXXFLAGS="-ggdb -pipe -Wall -pedantic"          \
FC="ccache gfortran"                            \
F77="ccache gfortran"                           \
MAKE="make"                                     

(cd doc/manual && make front-matter html-non-svn)

rm -f non-tarball

echo -n 'Revision: ' > SVN-REVISION
git log --format=%B -n 1 \
  | grep "^git-svn-id" \
  | sed -E 's/^git-svn-id: https:\/\/svn.r-project.org\/R\/.*?@([0-9]+).*$/\1/' \
  >> SVN-REVISION
echo -n 'Last Changed Date: ' >>  SVN-REVISION
git log -1 --pretty=format:"%ad" --date=iso | cut -d' ' -f1 >> SVN-REVISION

# make distclean

### The instruction in this section is for Ubuntu 12.04. 
# Note since zlib has been removed from R-3.2.0 src/extra, Ubuntu 12.04 will need to install zlib
# from its source in order to meet the requirment (zlib 1.2.5 from 2010) 
# since Ubuntu 12.04 only supplies zlib 1.2.3 from July 2005.
# http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/About-removing-zlib-from-R-devel-td4705134.html
# To upgrade zlib to the latest and set up environment variables to compile R:
#   wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
#   tar xzvf zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz 
#   cd zlib-1.2.8/
#   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/zlib
#   make
#   sudo make install
#   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/zlib/lib
#   export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/zlib/include
#   R-3.2.0 requires texi2any v5.1. So we need to install/bulid a new one from its source.
#   wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/texinfo/texinfo-5.2.tar.gz
#   tar xzvf texinfo-5.2.tar.gz
#   cd texinfo-5.2/
#   ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/texinfo
#   make
#   sudo make install
#   export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texinfo

time (./configure --with-recommended-packages=no && make --jobs=5)