On 07/02/2017 15:26, Gábor Csárdi wrote:
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Gábor Csárdi <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: [...] Well, you have missed the point. R itself allows you to do that: do read 'R Installation and Administration'. [...] For use as 'R' from a terminal, multiple CRAN distributions (of 3.x.y for different 'x') can easily be installed and used together: that is §4.3 of the manual. Yes, I indeed missed this. Thanks much for the explanation! One more question. I suppose if I install the various minor versions on different disks (e.g. I want 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 as well), that would work fine as well, and I don't even need pkgutil --forget? Or am I missing something?
You can install in different locations. I have never tried using different 'volumes' (in Apple parlance), but AFAIK Apple treats them separately (with separate records of packages installed).
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