Need to either make install into user homedir, or allow for other flavors of linux

[scholzmb]

install script uses
sudo apt-get

requiring:
1)Debian based OS
2) sudo access

should be able to use pip and R commands to install into local directory for all dependencies (other than python-devel)

[scholzmb]

Related, for Ubuntu default installs of python, we apparently have issues with unicode libraries. see here:

https://docs.python.org/2/faq/extending.html#when-importing-module-x-why-do-i-get-undefined-symbol-pyunicodeucs2

[biobenkj]

I'd like to expand the linux environments supported, but for some reason in my testing on ubuntu on a personal box, R is difficult to install a library like edgeR for the user. But I will work on setting up an option to default install to a local directory instead of attempting root access.

[biobenkj]

Regarding the unicode issue. I'll have to read more.

[scholzmb]

Perhaps split unicode issue to a separate issue?

In the meanitme, some thoughts:

1. for R, we should be able to do install using a target dir ($PWD/R/libraries), and do some bash-foo to set the environment variable R_LIBS_USER to include that directory within SPARTA.

2. Python should also be able to do similar:
   pip install --prefix $PWD/python PACKAGE # I THINK this would be the right usage
   then export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$SPARTAHOME/lib/python2.7/site-packages within SPARTA call?