Dear Luca, Luca Cerone <luca.cer...@gmail.com> writes:
> Dear all, > on one shared machine we have an older R version installed. Some packages > have known issues with that version that are fixed in newer R versions. > > Since that is a production machine with many jobs running we would like to > keep things as they are. However I would also like to keep advantage of the > newest version and the bug fixes introduced. > > What would be the best way to install a newer version along the one that > already exists? Is it possible to install it for a specific user only? > > Cheers, > Luca If you are on a Unix-like platform, a standard way of dealing with multiple versions of a piece of software installed in parallel is "Environment Modules": http://modules.sourceforge.net/ Packages for various Linux distributions are available. You could make a version available for a specific user by setting appropriate file permissions of the module file which is used to set up the environment. However, I would consider this a somewhat unusual configuration. If you are worried about people using the wrong version by mistake, you can either have the standard version available without using modules, or you can define a default version within the modules setup. HTH Loris -- This signature is currently under construction. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.