Review my upgrade plan from 2.8.0 to 2.8.1
I am on Vista so some of this might be slightly different on XP but I only keep one 2.8.x version, one 2.7.x version, etc. For me, all 2.8.x versions of R go into: %ProgramFiles%\R\R-2.8.x so installing R-2.8.1 is just a matter of installing it over R-2.8.0 and there is nothing more to do. In general, I let R choose the location of the libraries. It creates two libraries (one for the packages that come with R and one for the ones that I download): %ProgramFiles%\R\R-2.8.x\library %USERPROFILE%\Documents\R\win-library\2.8 I do keep separate R-2.6.x, R-2.7.x, R-2.8.x, etc. and for the corresponding libraries in win-library I use copydir.bat or movedir.bat from batchfiles. See http://batchfiles.googlecode.com I also use Rgui.bat, also from batchfiles, to start R or else click on the R icon on the Desktop. I don't make any change to my PATH nor do I create nor change any environment variables. (Rgui.bat, copydir.bat, movedir.bat, etc. can simply be placed anywhere on the existing path.)
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Daren Tan <darentan76 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On my laptop, R is installed on windows XP SP2 at D:\Program
Files\R\R-2.8.0, and all add-on packages are installed at D:\Program
Files\R\R-2.8.0.libs. In addition, I have created two environment
enviroment to ease upgrading and installation of packages. Packages
installed is a mix of those from CRAN, Bioconductor and local zips.
D:\My Document\My Desktop>echo %R_HOME%
D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.0
D:\My Document\My Desktop>echo %R_LIBS%
D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.0.libs
My plans for upgrade. Please give your precious comments to make it as
easy as possible, and error free.
1) Download R-2.8.1 and install at D:\Program Files\R\R-2.8.1.
2) Create a new folder D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.1.libs, and copy all
the packages from D:/Program Files/R/R-2.8.0.libs to the new one.
3) Update the two environment variables ?%R_HOME% and %R_LIBS% to
point to the new R-2.8.1 and library
4) Execute R
5) Update CRAN packages via
update.packages()
6) Update Bioconductor packages via
source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
update.packages(repos=biocinstallRepos(), ask=FALSE)
7) Update local zip packages via
Go to menu -> Packages -> Install packages from local zip -> select
the zip file.
8) Done!!!
sessionInfo()
R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 attached base packages: [1] grid ? ? ?tools ? ? stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils datasets ?methods ? base
______________________________________________ R-help at r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.