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how to update installed packages to a new version of R?

8 messages · Michael Friendly, Christian Schulz, John Fox +3 more

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Michael Friendly
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I've just installed R 1.6.1 and would like to install all the 
contributed packages I had used in 1.5.1.
It's not too hard to do this manually from Rgui, but I wondered if there 
is an easier way,
something like writing the results of installed.packages() from 1.5.1 to 
a file and
using that with install.packages() in 1.6.1, or just having 1.6.1 read 
what's in rw151/library.
Peter Dalgaard
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Michael L Friendly <friendly at yorku.ca> writes:
I don't have a windows version handy, but how about

z <- installed.packages("path/to/rw1051/library")
zz <- z[!(z[,"Priority"] %in% c("base","recommended")]),1]
install.packages(zz,lib=...)

??
Christian Schulz
# 
..in windows it is possible copy the package folders in your
new library folder and type
link.html.help()

regards,christian


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John Fox
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Dear Mike,
At 08:07 AM 11/6/2002 -0500, Michael L Friendly wrote:
What I do is set the environment variable R_LIBS to c:\R\Local (of course, 
you can adjust this to reflect where you want the packages to reside on 
your system). That way, all packages (beyond those in the R distribution) 
get installed in this location. When I install a new version of R, all I 
have to do is update the installed packages (via update.packages on the 
Packages menu in Rgui).

For a start, you could copy all of your current contributed packages to a 
local library directory and proceed as I suggested.

I hope that this help,
  John
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Brian Ripley
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This is covered in the rw-FAQ, questions 2.4 and 2.5.

I think I would uninstall rw1051, install rw1061, move the remaining files
in rw1051/library to some suitable place, set R_LIBS in .Renviron,
then fire up 1.6.1 and update the packages.

If you use a separate library for installed packages upgrading is very
easy.
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How about just copying the library directory from your 1.5.1 directory to
your 1.6.1 directory?  Then run update.packages() from R.

-roger
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Roger Peng <rpeng at stat.ucla.edu> writes:

            

      
      
      
    

        
You'd better avoid copying the base packages, or interesting things
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Dear Roger and Mike,

I used to do it this way, but it helps to keep the base and recommended 
packages, which are part of the R distribution, separate from the 
"contributed" packages.

John

        
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