Re: [R] About upgrade R
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 21:14 -0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Josh and all, I think .Rprofile is something you have to create yourself No, it is a file on Linux OS No, it isn't! It doesn't mysteriously appear on any system. You create it to personalise certain aspects of your use of R and runtime: I currently have this in mine (Linux): $ cat ~/.Rprofile options(repos = http://cran.uk.r-project.org;) You need to check out the Windows specific help in regard to this aspect of configuring R as where you stick these files etc may be different on Windows. G snip / -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Em 16/11/2010 04:55, Tal Galili escreveu: Hello Cesar, Thank you for the reply. Another question I have is if it is possible to detect the library path of an old R install, from the terminal of the new R install. Cheers, Tal, An at large reply would be no. The old install can be in a completely different directory and obtaining this information is somewhat OS dependent. For Linux and Windows you can use some tools from these OS to query the location of installed programs¹. Regards, -- Cesar Rabak [1] Albeit in Linux parlance the programs are called 'packages' as well so need to be careful. __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Tal My main use of R now is on Windows 7. As explained I always retain at least one previous version on windows 7 PCs. My upgrade is done as follows - 1) Download and install the binary install program for R and install. 2) Rename the library directory (default - C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0patched\library) to library2. (Windows 7 will ask for confirmation) 3) Copy the library directory from the previous version of R to the R directory (default - C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0patched\) ((Windows 7 will ask for confirmation). 4) copy the contents of the library2 directory to the library directory in the new R directory. 5) Right click on the R directory and select run as administrator to start R as administrator. 6) In R run some variant of update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE). On occasion one will find that packages are reporting errors in the CRAN compile and binary versions are not yet available for the new version of R. I delete these from the library directory and look in CRAN for possible explanations. Anyway I can revert back to the old version if I need these packages. Generally one may find that the missing packages are available shortly afterwards. . This procedure is fairly close to that recommended in the R FAQ and meets my needs. I think that it is necessary to keep libraries for different versions separate. Other users may have different requirements and other update methods may be more appropriate to them. There may be no method that is best for all users. I would imagine that one could write a DOS or Power Shell or Python (or other) script that would automate this process. Best Regards John On 14 November 2010 20:24, Tal Galili tal.gal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the code for it to: 1) copy all packages from the old R version to the new R version library 2) update all the packages. But I have no clue how to do step 1. How do you find out the latest R version that was install previous to the current one? And then, how would you find where it's package library is? If you could do this in R, then installing a new version of R could be made simpler for you. Cheers, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) -- On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ r-h...@r-project.org 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,
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Em 14/11/2010 20:42, csrabak escreveu: Em 14/11/2010 18:24, Tal Galili escreveu: Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the code for it to: 1) copy all packages from the old R version to the new R version library 2) update all the packages. But I have no clue how to do step 1. I've a clue but not the exact syntax for doing it: a) you need to get the library directory path of your current installation or if putting it manually; b) list.files(path = 'path to your libraries') select the directories with the return of file.info(); I've been educated that all above (a - b) can be obtained in a single object with a call to library(). libs - library() libs$results[,Package] will contain the list of installed packages. c) save the list for processing in the newer R version; d) in the newer version you use the list as argument to install.packages(). All the aforementioned /caveats/ about packages not in CRAN still apply. . . Regards, HTH -- Cesar Rabak __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Hello Cesar, Thank you for the reply. Another question I have is if it is possible to detect the library path of an old R install, from the terminal of the new R install. Cheers, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) -- On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 1:49 AM, csrabak cesar.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Em 14/11/2010 20:42, csrabak escreveu: Em 14/11/2010 18:24, Tal Galili escreveu: Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the code for it to: 1) copy all packages from the old R version to the new R version library 2) update all the packages. But I have no clue how to do step 1. I've a clue but not the exact syntax for doing it: a) you need to get the library directory path of your current installation or if putting it manually; b) list.files(path = 'path to your libraries') select the directories with the return of file.info(); I've been educated that all above (a - b) can be obtained in a single object with a call to library(). libs - library() libs$results[,Package] will contain the list of installed packages. c) save the list for processing in the newer R version; d) in the newer version you use the list as argument to install.packages(). All the aforementioned /caveats/ about packages not in CRAN still apply. . . Regards, HTH -- Cesar Rabak __ R-help@r-project.org 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Hi Uwe, If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) I have following packages installed in addition to R base rcom RExcel statconnDCOM IIRC statconnDCOM and RExcel are on different directories. rcom was installed on repo. I'll run; update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) In the worst case I just reinstall abovementioned packages. Any further advice before I start? Thanks B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de To: Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 11:03:57 PM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Hi Stephen, I just happened to have upgraded my R today. Tips: 1) Make sure the folder has full permissions so that you'll be able to install/update packages on it. 2) I still find the advices (and code) I gave in that article to be worthwhile. And do pay attention to the directory into which you want to install the packages. Good luck, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) -- On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Uwe, If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) I have following packages installed in addition to R base rcom RExcel statconnDCOM IIRC statconnDCOM and RExcel are on different directories. rcom was installed on repo. I'll run; update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) In the worst case I just reinstall abovementioned packages. Any further advice before I start? Thanks B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de To: Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 11:03:57 PM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ r-h...@r-project.org 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. __ r-h...@r-project.org 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. __ r-h...@r-project.org 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 Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happens on my system. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ r-h...@r-project.org 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. __ r-h...@r-project.org 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. __ r-h...@r-project.org 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 Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org 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. -- Stephen Sefick | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849 | |___| | sas0...@auburn.edu | | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | |___| Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal science. -Robert Gentleman __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the code for it to: 1) copy all packages from the old R version to the new R version library 2) update all the packages. But I have no clue how to do step 1. How do you find out the latest R version that was install previous to the current one? And then, how would you find where it's package library is? If you could do this in R, then installing a new version of R could be made simpler for you. Cheers, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) -- On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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 Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Hi Ajay wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying I also have this doubt? The packages have been updated. Are those packages updated belong to version 2.12 OR still version 2.11.1 In Linux/Unix if the latest version, say 5.2.0, and the running version is 5.1.0 I have to upgrade the version NOT the packages. I have no idea on R B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: Ajay Ohri ohri2...@gmail.com To: Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de Cc: Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com; r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 12:59:22 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Hi Stephen and folks mv .Rprofile Rprofile I can't find .Rprofile on Win7 even with [uncheck] Hide extension for known file types on Windows Explorer. Nor I can search for it. Would it be under another name in Windows? B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happens on my system. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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 Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org 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. -- Stephen Sefick | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849| |___| | sas0...@auburn.edu | | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | |___| Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal science. -Robert Gentleman __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
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Hi Stephen, I think .Rprofile is something you have to create yourself. It is not needed, but you can create it and then put your customizations in it (just put it in the same directory as the directory R starts in. Cheers, Josh On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Stephen and folks mv .Rprofile Rprofile I can't find .Rprofile on Win7 even with [uncheck] Hide extension for known file types on Windows Explorer. Nor I can search for it. Would it be under another name in Windows? B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happens on my system. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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 Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org 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. -- Stephen Sefick | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849 | |___| | sas0...@auburn.edu | | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | |___| Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Sorry for the confusion. My post applies to *NIX. I am sorry for not reading your post thoroughly and also not specifying the system that I am using. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Stephen and folks mv .Rprofile Rprofile I can't find .Rprofile on Win7 even with [uncheck] Hide extension for known file types on Windows Explorer. Nor I can search for it. Would it be under another name in Windows? B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happens on my system. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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 Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org 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. -- Stephen Sefick | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849 | |___| | sas0...@auburn.edu | | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | |___| Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals
Re: [R] About upgrade R
Hi Josh and all, I think .Rprofile is something you have to create yourself No, it is a file on Linux OS Start R as Admin update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows64/contrib/2.11 It didn't work. Start MS Excel 2007 to make sure following packages; RExcel rcom statconnDCOM work To remove R 2.11.1 Start - Control Panel - Uninstall a program - highlight R for windows x64 2.11.1 - Uninstall Download Windows R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.at.r-project.org/ - Windows - base - Download R 2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) - Run Select Destination Location C:\Program Files\R-2.12.0 - Next select Default settings and add; On-line PDF Manuals [check] Technical Manual [check] PDF help pages SupportFiles for Package tcltk [check] Timezone files for Tcl [check] Tcl/Tk Help (Compiled HTML) [check Test files - Next Startup options [check] No (accep defaults) - Next Select Start Menu Folder R - Next Select Additional Tasks [check] Create a desktop icon [check] Save version number in registry [check] Associate R with .RData files - Next - Finish Installation went throught w/o complaint To my surprise there are 2 R icons on desktop - R x64 2.12.0 - R 2.12.0 I suppose the 2nd one is 32bit version? I don't need 2 R versions here. This is a 64bit Win7. Can I delete the 32bit R? Start MS Excel 2007 - start R complaining R server not available. I have to reinstall; rcom statconnDCOM RExcel Now R 2.12 is running on Win7. RExcel also works B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: Joshua Wiley jwiley.ps...@gmail.com To: Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 11:19:38 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R Hi Stephen, I think .Rprofile is something you have to create yourself. It is not needed, but you can create it and then put your customizations in it (just put it in the same directory as the directory R starts in. Cheers, Josh On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Stephen and folks mv .Rprofile Rprofile I can't find .Rprofile on Win7 even with [uncheck] Hide extension for known file types on Windows Explorer. Nor I can search for it. Would it be under another name in Windows? B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happens on my system. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting
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Hi Stephen, It doesn't exist before you'll make it (that's one of the thing the code in my post does) Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) -- On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:15 AM, Stephen Liu sati...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Stephen and folks mv .Rprofile Rprofile I can't find .Rprofile on Win7 even with [uncheck] Hide extension for known file types on Windows Explorer. Nor I can search for it. Would it be under another name in Windows? B.R. Stephen L - Original Message From: stephen sefick ssef...@gmail.com To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happens on my system. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, John C Frain fra...@gmail.com wrote: The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de wrote: On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Liggeslig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ / I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? TIA B.R. Stephen L __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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. __ R-help@r-project.org 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 Economics Department Trinity College Dublin Dublin 2 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:fra...@tcd.ie mailto:fra...@gmail.com __ R-help@r-project.org 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. -- Stephen Sefick | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849| |___| | sas0
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Em 14/11/2010 18:24, Tal Galili escreveu: Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the code for it to: 1) copy all packages from the old R version to the new R version library 2) update all the packages. But I have no clue how to do step 1. I've a clue but not the exact syntax for doing it: a) you need to get the library directory path of your current installation or if putting it manually; b) list.files(path = 'path to your libraries') select the directories with the return of file.info(); c) save the list for processing in the newer R version; d) in the newer version you use the list as argument to install.packages(). All the aforementioned /caveats/ about packages not in CRAN still apply. . . Regards, -- Cesar Rabak __ R-help@r-project.org 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.
