Hi All, I downloaded the R program (version 2.6.2) in last Jan 2008. I now want to upgrade the program to its latest version, but I don't want to go through the process of deleting the existing version and downloading the new version. This is because my existing R program has numerous packages that I downloaded for my research work. I want to upgrade my R program with those packages in it. Is there a way I can do this? I would appreciate if someone can help me in this issue. Thank you Regards Nidhi
Upgrade R program (version 2.6.2) ???
4 messages · Nidhi Kohli, Stefan Grosse, Brian Ripley +1 more
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:41:54 -0500 (EST) Nidhi Kohli <nidhik at umd.edu> wrote: NK> has numerous packages that I downloaded for my research work. I NK> want to upgrade my R program with those packages in it. Is there a NK> way I can do this? I would appreciate if someone can help me in NK> this issue. A bit more information would be nice... So we can only guess which operating system you are on. I would suppose you are on Windows since you seem not aware of alternatives. However on windows you could install the new R in the same directory as the old, so that the old gets overwritten. You can specify this in the installation procedure. Once you have done this you can update your packackes with update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) this updates the packages on your system to the current R versions packages. hth. Stefan
Please don't post twice to different versions of the same address. r-help at r-project.org r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch are the *same* list. A few posters always send to both. Despite reading this twice, we don't have the information we asked for in the posting guide. If this is Windows or Mac OS X, see the appropriate FAQ. For other platforms, this is discussed frequently in the list archives.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Nidhi Kohli wrote:
Hi All, I downloaded the R program (version 2.6.2) in last Jan 2008. I now want to upgrade the program to its latest version, but I don't want to go through the process of deleting the existing version and downloading the new version. This is because my existing R program has numerous packages that I downloaded for my research work. I want to upgrade my R program with those packages in it. Is there a way I can do this? I would appreciate if someone can help me in this issue. Thank you Regards Nidhi
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Nidhi, You neglect to say what your OS is. If you are using Windows, see the "R for Windows FAQ" faq 2.8. I haven't looked, but I'm sure there is a similar item for other OS. Murray M Cooper, Ph.D. Richland Statistics 9800 N 24th St Richland, MI, USA 49083 Mail: richstat at earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nidhi Kohli" <nidhik at umd.edu> To: "r-help" <r-help at r-project.org>; "r-help" <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 10:41 AM Subject: [R] Upgrade R program (version 2.6.2) ???
Hi All, I downloaded the R program (version 2.6.2) in last Jan 2008. I now want to upgrade the program to its latest version, but I don't want to go through the process of deleting the existing version and downloading the new version. This is because my existing R program has numerous packages that I downloaded for my research work. I want to upgrade my R program with those packages in it. Is there a way I can do this? I would appreciate if someone can help me in this issue. Thank you Regards Nidhi
______________________________________________ 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.