About upgrade R
The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in favour of retaining the current system. John
On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default...... just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last stable version. Uwe Ligges Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>: Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ I found steps on following site; How to upgrade R on windows ? another strategy (and the R code to do it) http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on repo? ?TIA B.R. Stephen L
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