How to revert to older R version?

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Dear all,

I have just installed R 2.3.0 on my PowerMac to be able to work with
Bioconductor version 1.8, but found out afterwards that the Bioconductor 1.8
binaries are not yet available for OS X. They say they will be available soon,
but since BioC 1.8 is from April 27 I figure 'soon' can be a while... So I
want to return to an old R version, but I am not sure how to. I see in my
Framework directory that the folder 'current' is just an alias to the 2.3
folder; is it as simple as changing the alias to the folder containing version
2.2, or are there other modifications I have to make?
Not a direct answer to your question, but most of BioConductor installs just
fine as "source" packages on my Mac.  Before you decide to try to reinstall,
you might try installing source packages.

Sean
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Dear all,

I have just installed R 2.3.0 on my PowerMac to be able to work  
with Bioconductor version 1.8, but found out afterwards that the  
Bioconductor 1.8 binaries are not yet available for OS X. They say  
they will be available soon, but since BioC 1.8 is from April 27 I  
figure 'soon' can be a while...
You can test them if you use http://r.research.att.com/bioc/ as the  
repository.
So I want to return to an old R version, but I am not sure how to.  
I see in my Framework directory that the folder 'current' is just  
an alias to the 2.3 folder; is it as simple as changing the alias  
to the folder containing version 2.2, or are there other  
modifications I have to make?

If your 2.2 installation is still complete, yes. However, depending  
on your setup, Apple installer may have removed the older R - in that  
case you need to re-install 2.2.1.

Cheers,
Simon

Hi Sean,

Thanks for your reply. I managed to install most of them as source  
packages, but for a number of them (and of course the ones I need  
most) I got an error message saying that compilation failed. I have  
included an example at the bottom of this message.

Marije

trying URL 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/stable/src/ 
contrib/affxparser_1.2.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 234898 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 229Kb

The downloaded packages are in
	/private/tmp/RtmpTbWvX1/downloaded_packages
* Installing *source* package 'affxparser' ...
** libs
** arch - ppc
** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/ 
library/affxparser'
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make:  
command not found
^^ - you don't have Apple Xcode tools installed. Those are required  
to compile packages from sources.

Cheers,
Simon
Having said that, affxparser does not work on Mac OS using the  
version of gcc shipped with R-2.3.0. We are working on it.

/Kasper

On May 12, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Booman, M wrote:

Hi Sean,

Thanks for your reply. I managed to install most of them as source
packages, but for a number of them (and of course the ones I need
most) I got an error message saying that compilation failed. I have
included an example at the bottom of this message.

Marije

trying URL 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/stable/src/
contrib/affxparser_1.2.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 234898 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 229Kb

The downloaded packages are in
	/private/tmp/RtmpTbWvX1/downloaded_packages
* Installing *source* package 'affxparser' ...
** libs
** arch - ppc
** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/
library/affxparser'
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make:
command not found
^^ - you don't have Apple Xcode tools installed. Those are required
to compile packages from sources.

Cheers,
Simon

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And just to clarify, the error in affxparser is special to that  
package, and has nothing to do with the rest of the Bioconductor  
packages.

/Kasper

Having said that, affxparser does not work on Mac OS using the
version of gcc shipped with R-2.3.0. We are working on it.

/Kasper

On May 12, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

On May 12, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Booman, M wrote:

Hi Sean,

Thanks for your reply. I managed to install most of them as source
packages, but for a number of them (and of course the ones I need
most) I got an error message saying that compilation failed. I have
included an example at the bottom of this message.

Marije

trying URL 'http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/bioc/stable/src/
contrib/affxparser_1.2.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 234898 bytes
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 229Kb

The downloaded packages are in
	/private/tmp/RtmpTbWvX1/downloaded_packages
* Installing *source* package 'affxparser' ...
** libs
** arch - ppc
** Removing '/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/2.3/Resources/
library/affxparser'
/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/SHLIB: line 1: make:
command not found
^^ - you don't have Apple Xcode tools installed. Those are required
to compile packages from sources.

Cheers,
Simon

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