Dear list, how can old installed packages be maintained when R is updated (e.g. from 1.1.1 to 1.3.0)? Up to now we installed all packages (except the libraries which come with the R base) once more in case of every R update. Is this really necessary? (Solaris UNIX) Thanks in advance, Christian *********************************************************************** Christian Hennig University of Hamburg, Faculty of Mathematics - SPST/ZMS (Schwerpunkt Mathematische Statistik und Stochastische Prozesse, Zentrum fuer Modellierung und Simulation) Bundesstrasse 55, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany Tel: x40/42838 4907, privat x40/631 62 79 hennig at math.uni-hamburg.de, http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/hennig/ ####################################################################### ich empfehle www.boag.de -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Installation and packages
2 messages · Christian Hennig, Brian Ripley
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Christian Hennig wrote:
Dear list, how can old installed packages be maintained when R is updated (e.g. from 1.1.1 to 1.3.0)? Up to now we installed all packages (except the libraries which come with the R base) once more in case of every R update. Is this really necessary? (Solaris UNIX)
Depends on the update. To move from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0 or later, yes, you need to re-install many of the packages as the header files changed with the new memory management. I found it hard to guess correctly which ones, and re-installed all of them. When I updated our installations on Friday, I installed 1.3.0 over where 1.3.0 had been installed, ran update.packages() and then looked for files in the installation tree over a day old and deleted a few (the demos directory for example). If you have not updated at all since 1.1.1, update.packages() will re-install all the current packages, as the oldest on CRAN is dated Jan 11, after 1.2.0 came out. You will then want to REMOVE survival5 and integrate, which are obselete.
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