Upgrade R?

I have had similar problems.

I have several installations of R and now I have no control over which one
opens when I try opening a RData file.  The RGUI is registered more than
once, but they all have the exact same appearance in the "choose programs"
menu.

It's become particularly annoying now that new versions of R seem to be
published with ever increasing frequency.

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Burton<rkevinburton at charter.net>wrote:

I am also using statConn so I will let you know if I hear anything new.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cem Girit [mailto:girit at comcast.net]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:52 AM
To: 'Kevin Burton'
Cc: r-help at r-project.org
Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?

Hello Kevin,

        Thank you. I will delete the folder and run an application called
CCleaner (free). That will remove all the broken registry entries.

        There should be a problem free update path for R installation. As
you rightfully mentioned the R- manual is not clear about package update
issues. I received many helpful suggestions on the update path but some of
the them were contradictory in the order of steps to be taken.  I am also
using statConn (DCOM) interface for programming.  So my problems are
multifold.  I will compile the answers I received on the R version update
issue and publish them so that that the experts could put them into more
effective use.

        Sincerely,

Cem


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Burton [mailto:rkevinburton at charter.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:11 PM
To: 'Cem Girit'
Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?

I don't know if it was correct but I just removed the directory and then
searched and removed all instances in the registry that referred to 2.13.1
(in my case searching for this seemed to only return references to 'R'). I
have since been given some links that address specific registry entries but
I haven't had any problem yet with my 'slash and burn' approach. It removed
it from the 'Install/Uninstall' list with windows so it seems to have be
removed and the disk space that 2.13.2 took up has been reclaimed.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you find any more definitive answers.

Thanks.

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Cem Girit [mailto:girit at comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 6:33 PM
To: 'Kevin Burton'
Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?

Hello Kevin,

        I am getting the same error "utCompiledCode..." since I  installed
R2.14 while R2.13 existed.  How did you get rid of R2.13 eventually? Did
you
just delete it? If so, how did you clean the registry?

        Thank you,

Cem

-----Original Message-----
From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
On
Behalf Of Kevin Burton
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:54 AM
To: 'jose Bartolomei'; 'R Help'
Subject: Re: [R] Upgrade R?

The problem with this documentation is two-fold. One it seems to
concentrate
on building from source which I don't need. Two it doesn't address the
upgade. I have a number of packages and so I need to do what has been
suggested and install the latest version *first*. Then copy the libraries
(packages). Then uninstall the previous version. It is on this last step
that I am stuck on right now. The last link on uninstalling R manually was
what I needed. Thank you.



Kevin



From: jose Bartolomei [mailto:surfprjab at hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:19 AM
To: rkevinburton at charter.net; R Help
Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?



Hi,
Don't know if this will help you but...
In my short experience and following the guidelines you should first
uninstall R.


http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-Window
s

Unistall it from the Windows control panel.

The old R version libraries file will be kept on machine.
For example : C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\library

Then install the new version via:

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-Window
s

You can copy/paste libraries from the old version R library file to the new
one.
C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\library

There is too an function named:
?update.packagee

If above was what you did, then there is a post on Uninstalling R manually:


http://learnserver.csd.univie.ac.at/rcomwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:uninstalling_r
_manually

Regards,
Jose

From: rkevinburton at charter.net
To: r-help at r-project.org
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:07:20 -0600
Subject: Re: [R] Upgrade R?

Since apparently there is no one familiar with this error message let
me rephrase the question. Is there a 'manual' process to fully remove
a

version

of 'R' from my machine? This is a Window PC running Windows 7.



Thank you.



Kevin



From: Kevin Burton [mailto:rkevinburton at charter.net]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 2:23 PM
To: 'r-help at r-project.org'
Subject: Upgrade R?



I am trying to upgrade to R 2.14 from R 2.13.1 I have compied all the
libraries from the 'library' directory in my existing installation

(2.13.1)

to the installed R 2.14. Now I want to uninstall the old installation
(R
2.13.1) and I get the error:



Internal Error: Cannot find utCompiledCode record for this version of
the uninstaller.



Any ideas?



Kevin


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