> -----Original Message----- > From: r-devel-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Gabor Grothendieck > Sent: May-04-11 10:35 AM > To: Duncan Murdoch > Cc: R-devel > Subject: Re: [Rd] Wishlist: write R's bin path to the PATH variable and remove > the version string in the installation dir under Windows > > [snip] > I personally keep about half a dozen back versions of R for the reasons > others have mentioned and these would include one R-13.x version, one R- > 12.x version, etc. I literally use x in the name since only the most recent > version in any such series is stored. That is, when a new R-2.13.x comes out I > just install it over the existing > R-2.13.x: > > Directory of C:\Program Files\R > > 31/03/2010 02:37 PM <DIR> R-2.10.x > 01/06/2010 01:03 PM <DIR> R-2.11.x > 22/03/2011 03:25 PM <DIR> R-2.12.x > 26/04/2011 01:45 PM <DIR> R-2.13.x > > Do you keep the RTools version specific to each version of R installed too? If so, how do you manage that so that each version of R finds the right version of RTools when it needs it?
I don't use RTools much, but I need it to install some fo the packages I use from source since there are no binary distributions for them (for 64 bit Windows). I don't typically keep any more than two versions of R on my machine at any one time, but I don't remove an older version until I have verified that my R scripts work fine in the latest release. So usually there is only one version on my machine, but there will be two for a short while after a new release. But, my normal practice, as I describe here, would be disrupted if R's installer wrote R's bin path to my system path (in fact, I hate that for any software I use, even though in some cases there's no way to avoid it). Thanks Ted ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
