On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang wrote:
Sorry. The original message is below.
Uwe, do you mean if i just want to update the old package abc, i have to run "R
INSTALL abc_0.1.1.tar.gz" in the shell? I know that will overwrite that package,
but can I do something with the update.packages() function within R? From what
I read in the documentation, update.packages() seems to work for local source
file update as well.
You read incorrectly: install.packages() works with local files, but
to *update* you need to use a repository (which can be on your disc,
but needs to have a PACKAGES or PACKAGES.gz file).
The main function of the set is ‘update.packages’. First a list
of all packages/bundles found in ‘lib.loc’ is created and compared
with those available at the repositories. ...
Anybody any advice?
Thanks
---- Original message ----
Hi all,
I have an old package installed, say "abc". Now I made some changes to the
source,
and built a new version of the source code "abc_0.1.1.tar.gz". How can I update
the
old package to this newer version from the local tar.gz file? I was running the
following, but it did not work.
setwd("directory where the tar.gz file locates")
update.packages(repos=NULL,pkgs="abc_0.1.1.tar.gz",type="source")
The code runs, but when I load library(abc) again, it is still the old
version...
What
did I miss here? Thanks.
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:55:44 +0100
From: Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Subject: Re: [R] update packages from local
To: "Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang" <actuaryzh...@uchicago.edu>
Cc: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>, r-help@r-project.org
1. Please quote the old threat, at least I do not keep old messages.
2. Try install.packages() from a freshly started R (that has not loaded
the package in advance).
3. Since I am doing things in the shell for package development anyway,
I tend to call package installation from the shell as well:
R CMD INSTALL foo_x.y-z.tar.gz
Uwe Ligges
Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang wrote:
Thanks. But I after I restarted R, it is still the old version of the package
that
is
loaded. Am I using the update.packages() correctly?
Regards,
Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang
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