R-1.2.3: a small suggestion (PR#961)
On 1 Jun 2001, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
rossini@blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) writes:
"r" == ripley <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
r> There is a serious problem with that. All the user-installed
r> packages in /usr/local/lib/R-1.2.3/library disappear from view
r> on upgrade. They would need to be migrated.
One thought would be to emulate XEmacs in this regard -- lisp packages
are in equivalent of /usr/local/lib/R, while version-specific code is
in the equivalent of /usr/local/lib/R-version.
But R packages are not always binary compatible between releases. You can't win. I think most of the development team just use the "run from builddir" option. Could we perhaps add a configure switch to install in R-$VERSION ? --versioned-install or something like that. Kurt?
Alternatively, let people do it both ways, and suffer (i.e. install libraries in the versioned location, as well as in the "generic" location). (I'm feeling really grumpy this year). best, -tony -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._