update.packages()
On Nov 12, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Patrick Connolly wrote:
On Wed, 11-Nov-2009 at 03:47PM +0100, CG Pettersson wrote: |> Dear all, |> |> W.XP |> |> I recently upgraded to R2.10.0 and did what I usually do: copied all |> "special" libraries from the old installation and then used |> "update.packages()" on the command line. Nothing happened. Then I clicked |> on the same command on the droplist which generated |> "update.packages(ask='graphics')", but still with no effect. |> |> When I tried to load the "gregmisc" bundle I got error messages telling me |> to upgrade the individual packages (like gmodels and gplot). |> |> What has happened and why? Have a look at the checkBuilt parameter to update.packages. HTH
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From the NEWS file for 2.10.0:
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
...
o Bundles of packages are deprecated. See 'Writing R
Extensions' for the steps needed to unbundle a bundle.
Thus, see:
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-exts.html#Package-bundles
I am copying Greg here at his last known e-mail address, albeit I have
not seen any communications from him in some time.
In the mean time, you will need to install/upgrade the individual
component packages.
HTH,
Marc Schwartz