Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages
On 09.04.2015 23:16, John C Frain wrote:
My understanding is that the packages installed with the windows installer were only updated by installing a new version of R or the patched install file for the current version. If this is the case you you do not need to be concerned about updates to these packages. Perhaps some one wiser that I can confirm if my assumption is right or wrong.
No, updates of such recommended packages may be available between R releases. But individual users can install new versions using install.packages() into their private libraries, e.g. those that are first on the search path (given by .libPaths()) so that they are loaded first. Best, Uwe Ligges
John John C Frain 3 Aranleigh Park Rathfarnham Dublin 14 Ireland www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html mailto:frainj at tcd.ie mailto:frainj at gmail.com On 9 April 2015 at 14:42, Elliot Joel Bernstein <ejb6 at cornell.edu> wrote:
I am trying to install R for Windows, but when I use the installer provided
on CRAN, a number of third-party packages are installed by default (i.e.
lattice, Matrix, codetools, etc.). If R is installed with administrator
privileges, so it's available for all users, non-administrators can't
update those packages. Is there any way to just install R without any
third-party packages, and let individual users install the packages they
want?
Thanks.
- Elliot
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