r-cran-* packages with recent R alpha release

| > I would reinstall bitops into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/ rather
| > than downgrading R, but either way is fine.
| 
| Good idea installing to the local library, making sure it is before the
| system-wide one in the library tree!

That is the default:

R> .libPaths()
[1] "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library"       "/usr/lib/R/library"           
R> 


Dirk

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