[Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel

2013-02-27 Thread Renaud
Hi, is checking out R SVN trunk the recommended way to keep up to date with R-devel and check packages with the latest version? My objective is to be able to have both R and R-devel versions installed/working and up to date. R-devel binaries would be available as symlinks in my home directory so

Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel

2013-02-27 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Feb 27, 2013, at 5:08 AM, Renaud wrote: Hi, is checking out R SVN trunk the recommended way to keep up to date with R-devel and check packages with the latest version? My objective is to be able to have both R and R-devel versions installed/working and up to date. R-devel binaries

Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel

2013-02-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 February 2013 at 12:08, Renaud wrote: | is checking out R SVN trunk the recommended way to keep up to date with | R-devel and check packages with the latest version? In theory. In practice you need a time machine as I just something rejected for a test that did not exist when I submitted

Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel

2013-02-27 Thread Renaud
Hi, thanks for the responses. Dirk I found the script you posted once. Can anyone send me a link to the beaten to death post? I am fine with these approaches and kind of already follow them. I imagine that after an R-devel update you have to re-install all the contrib packages that need to

Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel

2013-02-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 27 February 2013 at 17:16, Renaud wrote: | Hi, | | thanks for the responses. | Dirk I found the script you posted once. Can anyone send me a link to theĀ  | beaten to death post? Those were Simon's words, not mine, but I think he referred to the long-ish and painful thread here:

Re: [Rd] Keeping up to date with R-devel

2013-02-27 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 27/02/2013, at 18:08 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: On 27 February 2013 at 17:16, Renaud wrote: | Hi, | | thanks for the responses. | Dirk I found the script you posted once. Can anyone send me a link to the | beaten to death post? Those were Simon's words, not mine, but I think he