Consistency of information about installed packages
Hi, Rob, The only hint I saw, and it showed up in the Installer, was to remove copies of old RAqua. In fact, it says "previous versions of the Cocoa GUI are fine". Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but that looked pretty definite to me. I had some packages previously installed; they were, as usual, gone. That's of course not a problem; it's expected. Thanks -Don
At 11:10 AM -0700 4/28/05, Rob J Goedman wrote:
Don, Correct. It does give a hint while installing to remove old versions. The safe and correct way to install is removing previous versions of R (usually in /Applications) and and R.framework (/Library/Frameworks/R.framework). It might ask for authentication to drag these into the Trash. If in the past you have used/updated a library in your home directory, also remove this library (~/Library/library). All packages need to be updated for R-2.1.0. Hope this helps, Rob On Apr 28, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Don MacQueen wrote:
It appears to me that the Gui-based installer for binary format
packages in the new R 2.1.0 binary distribution can report a
package as installed when in fact it has not been successfully
installed. This results from a previous attempt to install the
package from source code that failed.
Details:
I just installed the new R 2.1.0 binary for OS X.
I installed over the existing R 2.0.1, which had also been
installed from the binary.
Other then the fact that it was installed over the previous
version, this is a completely fresh installation of R 2.1.0.
I started R by double-clicking R.app.
The very first thing I tried to do was to install the deldir package.
In the console, I typed
install.packages('deldir')
The installation failed, final message was
"installation of package 'deldir' had a non-zero exit status..."
I then went to the GUI menu item for installing binary format
packages. I found deldir. However, it told me I had an installed
version of deldir (there was an entry in the "Installed Version"
column of the GUI window). Since the attempt to install from source
had failed, this is not correct.
The version number for deldir in the GUI package installer window
was the same as that of the attempt to install from source.
I had not installed deldir in R 2.0.1 (even if I had, it shouldn't
be relevant, I believe)
-Don
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