---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John C Frain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 13-Jul-2007 22:30 Subject: Re: [R] THANK YOU: Updating R version To: "Christopher W. Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When I update R the following has worked for me (Windows XP) 1. Install the new version to a new directory (say C:\Program Files\R\R-2.5.1). 2 Rename the new library subdirectory to library2. 3 Copy the entire contents of the old library subdirectory (say C:\Program Files\R\R-2.4.0\library\ to the new R root to create C:\Program Files\R\R-2.5.1\library\ . 4 Copy the contents of library2 to library to update your basic library. 5 Now start your new version of R and update packages from the GUI or from the R console. (You may need to firs check Rprofile .site to ensure that no packages have been loaded) 6. On occasion I have got warning messages when I tried to load packages after this procedure. This has been cleared by running update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE) This checks that your packages have been built with the latest version. When I do this I agree to install all available updates. 7 You may wish to copy various autoloads etc from your old Rprofile.site to your new Rprofile.site. I understand that there are some compatibility problems with 2.5.1 and SciViews so be careful. Best Regards John On 13/07/07, Christopher W. Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- John C Frain Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- John C Frain Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [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.
