The specific message is:
"Warning: package 'spatial' in library '/usr/lib/R/library' will not be
updated"
and the number of libraries about which that's the complaint is now
increasingly almost daily so clearly something is wrong.
I'm working on a laptop on which I do the recommended Ubuntu updates
daily. I done a standard installation of R 2.15.1 using synaptic with:
deb http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
deb-src http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/bin/linux/ubuntu precise/
in /etc/apt/sources.list and I added most of the optional packages that
are packaged at that source.
I have been updating going into R through "sudo R" in my home directory
and then using
"update.packages(instlib=.libPaths()[1],ask=FALSE)"
However, that gets these complaints about not updating. I get the same
message if I use:
"update.packages(ask=FALSE)"
I get the same if I use "su" rather than sudo and if I update as an
ordinary user and if I point to a different mirror repository (I have
been using Switzerland as Bristol seemed to be lagging behind
Switzerland a lot).
I was doing to that without a personal library but tried updating as an
ordinary user and created a personal library as prompted but that still
gets the same but that means that my .libPaths() is now:
> .libPaths()
[1] "/home/chris/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15"
[2] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
[3] "/usr/lib/R/site-library"
[4] "/usr/lib/R/library"
I think I've read and understood umpteen questions about the different
ways of updating libraries on this list. I would like to update to the
latest library versions regularly (as 2.15.1 for Windoze in a VM box on
this machine does fine). Clearly I don't understand something and am
doing something wrong. Please can someone enlighten me?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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Consultant Psychiatrist in Psychotherapy, Notts. PDD network;
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