R

This page contains instructions for building the R client library.

Parallelizing the Build

Problem: By default, R compiles packages using a single thread, which causes the build to be slow.

Solution: To parallelize the compilation, create or edit the ~/.R/Makevars file, and add a line like the following:

MAKEFLAGS = -j8

The above will parallelize the compilation using 8 threads. On Linux/macOS, you can add the following to use all of the machine’s threads:

MAKEFLAGS = -j$(nproc)

However, note that, the more threads that are used, the higher the RAM consumption. If the system runs out of RAM while compiling, then the R session will crash.