Building R Packages using Alternate GCC

Question

The systems I work with have GCC 4.5 (experimental) in /usr/local/bin/gcc which has proven to be problematic for some R packages. I would like to instead use system GCC in /

Answer 1

Check your path to see if /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin. If it does, just make sure /usr/bin comes first:

PATH=/usr/bin:${PATH}

(it's okay if /usr/bin is duplicated appears twice).