A scripting and command-line front-end for GNU R permitting use of R in command-line contexts.
In general, simply running the script bootstrap will configure and build the
executable. Running make install (possibly as sudo make install) will
install the resulting binary.
On Linux systems, ensure you have the autotools-dev package (or its
equivalent on non-Debian/Ubuntu systems). On OS X, you may need to run brew install automake autoconf to get all the tools.
On some operating systems such as OS X, r is not different from R. As
this risk confusing the main binary R for the R system with our smaller
scripting frontend r, we suggest to consider running configure --program-prefix="l" which this leads to installation of a binary lr
instead of r.
As littler uses autoconf its AC_PATH_PROG() macro to find R, one can
simply adjust the PATH when calling configure (or, rather, bootstrap)
to have another version of R used. For example, on a server with R-devel in
this location, the following builds littler using this R-devel version:
PATH="/usr/local/lib/R-devel/bin/:$PATH" ./bootstrap.
For more information about littler, please see
Jeff Horner and Dirk Eddelbuettel
GPL (>= 2)