The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system.
John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: > > wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part > of every base version install BY Default...... just saying > > > At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do > not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable > version. > > Uwe Ligges > > > > > > Websites- > http://decisionstats.com > http://dudeofdata.com > > > Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri > > > > > > 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>: > > Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. > > If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not > the R base library) you can simply run > > update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) > > If not ... > > Uwe Ligges > > > On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: > > > Hi all, > > Win 7 64-bit > R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) > > I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 > R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ > > I found steps on following site; > How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) > > http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ > > > I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on > repo? TIA > > B.R. > Stephen L > > > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- John C Frain Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.