This sounds like a solution I've been looking for. With this setup now in place, when you download and install some new packages, where will they be put? Into C:\myRlib ?
Thanks. --Chris Christopher W. Ryan, MD SUNY Upstate Medical University Clinical Campus at Binghamton 40 Arch Street, Johnson City, NY 13790 cryanatbinghamtondotedu PGP public keys available at http://home.stny.rr.com/ryancw/ "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea." [Antoine de St. Exupery] Raghu Naik wrote: > Based on the feedback received, I did the following: > > a) moved my lib sub-directory from the existing installed R version to > c:\myRLib > b) installed the updated R version > c) created .Renviron file in the home directory (C:\R-2.5.1) with the line > R_LIBS=c:/myRLib > d) used .libPaths() command to confirm that the new R installation was > recognizing the myRLib sub-directory > e) deleted my old R installation > > Things worked fine. > > Thanks you. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Raghu Naik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jun 2, 2007 5:13 PM > Subject: Updating R version > To: [email protected] > > A quick question. I am trying to understand how I could move the installed > packages in my R 2.3 version to the newly installed R 2.5 version, without > having to install all the packages again. I copied the files under the old > library subdirectory to the new library subdirectory. But still the newer > version is not recognizing the packages that were copied over. > > Thanks. > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > [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. > ______________________________________________ [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.
