Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages
I would suggest that the scenario suggested by Peter is exactly as it should be... with the user fully in charge of which packages they use. A simple update can correct any version "inversion" if it occurs, and the user need not blame the sysadmin if their scripts stop working because of a system update.
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On April 9, 2015 2:53:29 PM PDT, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
On 09 Apr 2015, at 23:26 , Uwe Ligges
<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
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. However, little care is needed since the version in a private library may override the system one even after an R upgrade has updated it; i.e. an older version can end up in front of a newer one, which may cause some confusion.
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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