Message-ID: <4FFC4038.2060106@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2012-07-10T14:46:16Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: Mac OS X R uninstallation question
In-Reply-To: <1341917713783-4635971.post@n4.nabble.com>
Please ask Mac-specific questions on R-sig-mac.
In particular, it is a little odd that these are not getting deleted
when you install a new version.
But *if all your packages are up to date* you do not need earlier
versions of R.framework, so run
update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)
first.
On 10/07/2012 11:55, Alastair wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using R for a number of years and have always installed the newest
> version when released. However I've just noticed that old versions of R are
> taking up quite a lot of disk space.
>
> lap-alastair:/ alastair$ du -h -d 1
> /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/
> 266M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.10
> 204M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.11
> 459M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.12
> 511M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.13
> 478M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.14
> 217M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.15
> 32K /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.5
> 5.5M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.6
> 84M /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.8
> 2.2G /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/
>
> Do I need to keep any of the versions before the current (2.15). If I delete
> all the previous versions will that have any impact on the current
> installation, or is each version entirely self-contained?
>
> Thanks.
--
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