Thanks for the answers so far. I have to go through this with my system administrator.
The system is slackware linux. > For Unix-alikes, it all depends how the update was done, but normal > package update mechanisms (such as RPM) will not wipe out previously > installed R packages: nor will 'make install'. I don't really understand what "does not wipe out" means. Certainly, the packages are not deleted from the hard disk, but... Am I right that I should expect it as standard behaviour that all previously installed packages are found if R is updated in a straightforward manner (using "make install", say)? Or is the opposite true that I definitely should not expect it? (And is there any standard solution for this else than installing all packages again?) > In either case you don't need root access to install packages, as you can > use a private library. That's not really enough because I want to have them accessible to students as well. Furthermore, the sysadmin may develop kind of a "the whole R-thing is crap"-attitude if I can't come up with a solution preventing new installation of all packages, and I don't really want that. So I'm rather not interested in discussing solutions which involve installing all packages again (I know that this is possible). Best, Christian *** --- *** Christian Hennig University College London, Department of Statistical Science Gower St., London WC1E 6BT, phone +44 207 679 1698 [EMAIL PROTECTED], www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakche ______________________________________________ [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 and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
