A couple of people have gotten themselves in trouble by copying the contents of
their 4.4 library folder into the 4.5 counterpart and running update.packages().
That can be a really bad idea if the old library contains base packages like
"tools" or "utils". They don't live on CRAN, so update.packages() just leaves
them at the 4.4.x version.
For instance, tools::md5sum has a new bytes= argument in 4.5.0 which gets used
when loading other packages, but that cannot work anymore.
So copying library folders was probably never a good idea, but this time it is
a very, very bad idea.
To avoid the problem, you can do something like this:
> .libPaths()
[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.5-x86_64/Resources/library"
> tbl <-
> installed.packages("/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-x86_64/Resources/library")
> table(tbl[,"Priority"])
base recommended
14 15
> pkglist <- rownames(tbl[is.na(tbl[,"Priority"]),])
and then install.packages(pkglist) avoids touching the base/recommended ones.
- pd
PS: On MacOS, I have two systems upgraded 4.4.x to 4.5.0. One of them has tools
in the 4.4 library and the other does not. I have no clue what the difference
might be....
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