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Upgrading

3 messages · Deepankar Basu, Thomas Lumley, PIKAL Petr

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Hi!

As per Thomas' advice, I upgraded R by using "update.packages()" and got the following warning messages:

Warning messages:
1: installation of package 'lmtest' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
2: installation of package 'quadprog' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
3: installation of package 'cluster' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
4: installation of package 'tseries' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,

Do I need to worry about these messages? Do I need to do something else to complete the upgrade process?

Another question: what is the command for renaming an existing variable?

Thanks.
Deepankar
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, DEEPANKAR BASU wrote:

            
That was not my advice on how to upgrade. update.packages() updates the 
packages. You need to download a new version of R itself.  You will then 
need to update or reinstall the packages. The warning messages are because 
you are updating to versions of the packages that do not run on your old 
version of R.

 	-thomas
Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
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Hi

as the addition to Thomas's answer.
On 19 Dec 2006 at 15:20, Thomas Lumley wrote:
Date sent:      	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:20:18 -0800 (PST)
From:           	Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu>
To:             	DEEPANKAR BASU <basu.15 at osu.edu>
Copies to:      	R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	Re: [R] Upgrading
<snip>
e.g. if the variable is in data frame

names(your.data)[position.of.old.column.name] <- "new.column.name"
BTW, reading et least some docummentation could help you a lot with 
these issues.

HTH
Petr
Petr Pikal
petr.pikal at precheza.cz