Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/
Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the code for it to: 1) copy all packages from the old R version to the new R version library 2) update all the packages. But I have no clue how to do step 1. How do you find out the latest R version that was install previous to the current one? And then, how would you find where it's package library is? If you could do this in R, then installing a new version of R could be made simpler for you. Cheers, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:05 PM, John C Frain <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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-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. > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > -- > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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