[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > What do I need to install the latest package of SciViews? I already have R > v.2.2.1 installed on my WinXP machine. > > On http://www.sciviews.org/SciViews-R/index.html I read that required > components > are: > - SciViews-R version 0.8-9 (exe: 12,334 kb) > - SciViews R bundle version 0.8-9 (zip: 442 kb) > - R2HTML R package (>= 1.54) (zip: 527 kb) > - Manual
When you install all those packages under R 2.2.X, you are sure that they will work with each other. > Then, on http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Descriptions/SciViews.html I > find > a newer version of SciViews-R: 0.9-4 (zip: 550kb). Also, I have found a > version > 1.56 of the R2HTML package (zip: 524 kb)on the web. Yes, SciViews 0.9-4 is newer, and it is compatible with SciViews-R version 0.8-9 (the first item in the list hereabove). It was necessary to put this version on CRAN because they push always to be conpatible with the development version of R (2.3.0). This is the same for R2HTML, although, I don't know if its newest version 1.56 is fully compatible with the rest. Now, R 2.3.0 is planned to be released for next week. And I will have the opportunity to move SciViews/SciViews-R entirely to version 0.9-X and check further compatibility with the other pacakges on CRAN (R2HTML, RCmdr, etc.). The problem is the following one: R and R packages on CRAN are changing very rapidly (a new version of at least one CRAN package every day or so)! Those changes are never checked against compatibility with SciViews-R (developers almost exclusively use Emacs-ESS, not SciViews)! So, it is a huge work for me to recherck everything, make changes and fix compatibility issues everytime a package changes. So, my policy is the following: everything R makes a major update (like 2.2.X to 2.3.0), I recheck everything and propose a coherent suite of packages on the SciViews-R web site. Then, eventually, some packages become outdated. You have either the possibility to install everytrhing from SciViews-R, so that oyu are sure of maximum compatibility... but perhaps not everything up-to-date. Or, you update with latest versions on CRAN... but take the risk to raise some compatibility issues. That's the best I can do, given the voluntary nature of my work on SciViews-R and the limited time I have to maintain it. > Looking at the contents of the zip files and their sizes, I would say that the > 0.9-4 zip from CRAN is a newer version of the bundle version 0.8-9 on > sciviews.org. > > This leaves me with the question what I need for a new install: > - do I need to get a newer version of the 12 Mb installer to use together > with > the 0.9-4 bundle and 1.56 R2HTML package? If so, where can I get it? > - can I use the old installer with the newer bundle and package?, or > - should I stick to the 0.8-9 installer and bundle, together with the 1.54 > package, in order to avoid clashes? Please, let me something like one more month after the release of R 2.3.0 to check everything and to update the SciViews-R web site with version 0.9-X. Best, Philippe Grosjean > Thanks, > > Wim van der Graaf > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-GUI mailing list > R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui > > -- ..............................................<°}))><........ ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( ( Prof. Philippe Grosjean ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( ( Numerical Ecology of Aquatic Systems ) ) ) ) ) Mons-Hainaut University, Pentagone (3D08) ( ( ( ( ( Academie Universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles ) ) ) ) ) 8, av du Champ de Mars, 7000 Mons, Belgium ( ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ) ) phone: + 32.65.37.34.97, fax: + 32.65.37.30.54 ( ( ( ( ( email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ) ) ) ) ( ( ( ( ( web: http://www.umh.ac.be/~econum ) ) ) ) ) http://www.sciviews.org ( ( ( ( ( .............................................................. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-GUI mailing list R-SIG-GUI@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-gui
