[R] help-links.sh not found by help.start() -- do I need to recompile?

[Peter Dalgaard]

Ivailo Stoyanov wrote:
>> When you "moved" the source/build tree to "another location", did you
>> use 'make install' as root, or did you use 'mv' or 'cp'?
>>     
>
> No, I haven't used "make install" because I prefer to run R from within 
> the build location.
>
>   
>> The former is the _proper_ way to actually install R, after building
>> from source and this is covered in the R Admin Manual. See:
>>
>>   http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installation
>>     
>
> AFAIK, the approach of running R from within the build location is fully 
> valid as it is noted at the end of section "2.1 Simple compilation", 
> just above the cited one:
>   
Yes, but then it is not "actually installed".
> "... Note: you do not need to install R: you can run it from where it 
> was built."
>   
You can, but note that it doesn't say that you can move the build 
location afterwards, and in fact, you can not, because of the 
non-relative pathnames.
> All the best,
> Ivailo
>