On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I apologize for not having investigated enough. > > However I want to bring up the point that upgrading can be a very > tedious thing. I administer a cluster for which upgrading brings it to a > halt for several hours stopping all calculations going on. At the moment > I have no way to go from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1. > > I just want to add this point to the release policy of R which > historically has very quick release cycles which on the one hand is a > very positive thing but on the other hand can be problematic with > respect to some aspects.
I really don't understand. Just install the current R in a different place and try it. If it works better, use it for newly-started jobs. We too run a large cluster (and a few hundred loosely connected machines) and are able to upgrade pretty transparently even when long jobs are running. For those who are reluctant to upgrade, I would suggest never installing a .0 release (of any software, not just R). > > Thanks again, Stefan > > > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:02, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: >> Please read the posting guide (as we do ask) and use the current version >> as it asks to see if the `bug' has already been fixed. >> >> This was fixed a while ago, definitely in 2.1.1. >> >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> I'm on R 2.1.0. >>> >>> In the "source" function there is a bug preventing the proper use of the >>> chdir option (which simply doesn't work). >>> >>> The problem is that in the function the following line occurs: >>> file <- file(file, "r", encoding = encoding) >>> >>> This overwrites the variable "file" and later causes the check >>> if (chdir && is.character(file) && (path <- dirname(file)) != >>> ".") >>> to fail. > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
