Message-ID: <20090423081022.187b6c36@googlemail.com>
Date: 2009-04-23T06:10:22Z
From: Stefan Grosse
Subject: Problems with old version of R
In-Reply-To: <dae9a2a60904220818h3dd8d0e0v190f85c20f931bdb@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:18:17 -0400 Dimitri Liakhovitski
<ld7631 at gmail.com> wrote:
DL> You don't have to uninstall the old version. Just install the new
DL> version. What I do then - I manually copy (in Windows Explorer) all
DL> the packages from the folder library that is under your old R
DL> version into the folder library under the new R version. And then I
DL> open the new R version and run update packages.
Its even simpler than this. [On windows] You can install the new R over
the old in the very same folder. Then run update.packages(checkBuilt=T)
and you have upgraded the whole R suite.
No need to manually copy anything.
Cheers
Stefan