Message-ID: <19784.57108.609850.770903@max.nulle.part>
Date: 2011-02-02T04:35:32Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: updating r-cran- packages on a new Ubuntu lucid system
In-Reply-To: <4D482D15.3080400@yorku.ca>
On 1 February 2011 at 10:56, Michael Friendly wrote:
| On 1/31/2011 12:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > On 31 January 2011 at 09:04, Michael Friendly wrote:
| > | I'm not any further ahead in trying to update vcd from 1.2-7 to 1.2-9.
| > | How can I resolve this?
| >
| > If what you're doing doesn't work, do something else. The .deb package are
| > convenient. They can't all be recent because, well, a distro has release
| > schedules.
| >
| OK: I used (as sudo)
| install.packages("vcd"),
| and it seemed to work; however old.packages() still reports vcd at
| 1.2-7. Why is that?
You supplied no information that would enable us to tell you.
What does '.libPaths()' show?
Dirk
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