linux的两种版本,Linux下使用多个不同版本的R

On Linux, RStudio uses the version of R pointed to by the output of the following command:

which R

The which command performs a search for the R executable using the system PATH. RStudio will therefore by default bind to the same version that is run when R is executed from a terminal.

For versions of R installed by system package managers (e.g. r-base on Debian or Ubuntu) this will be/usr/bin/R. For versions of R installed from source this will typically (but not always) be/usr/local/bin/R.

If RStudio is unable to locate R using which R, it will fall back to scanning explicitly for the R script in the/usr/local/bin and/usr/bin directories.

If you want to override which version of R is used then you can set the RSTUDIO_WHICH_R environment variable to the R executable that you want to run against. For example:

export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/usr/local/bin/R

Not that in order for RStudio to see this environment variable when launched from the Ubuntu desktop Applications menu (as opposed to from a terminal) it must be defined in the~/.profile file.

注：将profile file要重新启动电脑才有效

export RSTUDIO_WHICH_R=/usr/local/bin/R加载到

If you want to run several R versions,you create aliases in the ~/.profile file, for example:

alias R2.12=/usr/local/bin/R

alias R2.14=/home/me/R-2.14/bin/R

Where /home/me/R-2.14 is the directory you install the new version of R specified by configure parameter "--prefix".