R install/libraries

Mon, Jan 9, 2017 5:52 PM

I have noticed a behavior where if I update a package with dependencies, sometimes it fails and the package that was outdated but installed is no longer installed. Once I run install.packages again, it usually seems to work just fine. I have not noticed that base packages are more susceptible to this than contributed packages.

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On January 9, 2017 4:47:16 PM PST, Chris <chris.barker at barkerstats.com> wrote:
>thx. when I let R installed to "my documents" (which is basically world
>read/writable) not all dependent packages download/install with the
>library.?
>When R tells me it can't find the dependent librariies, I manually
>download and install.
>
>Is that typical behaviour for R??Chris Barker, Ph.D.
>Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics - UIC-SPH
>and
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>
>On Monday, January 9, 2017 4:41 PM, Jeff Newmiller
><jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> 
>
>Your (updated) personal library should receive any updated versions of
>base packages that were originally installed with R. The outdated
>packages in the system library tend to become irrelevant over time with
>normal use. It is possible to update them but for most people fixing
>that is not worth the risk of breaking permissions on your personal
>library.