update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just
update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happens on my system. Stephen On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 2:05 PM, John C Frain <fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > The current method allows one to easily retain several versions > working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is > not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems > such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of > packages. My current practice is to retain older versions until I am > sure that all I need is available in the new version. Thus I am in > favour of retaining the current system. > > John > > On Sunday, Novembe 14, 2010, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> > wrote: >> >> >> On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: >> >> wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part >> of every base version install BY Default...... just saying >> >> >> At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do >> not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my last >> stable version. >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> >> >> >> Websites- >> http://decisionstats.com >> http://dudeofdata.com >> >> >> Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri >> >> >> >> >> >> 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges<lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>: >> >> Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. >> >> If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not >> the R base library) you can simply run >> >> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) >> >> If not ... >> >> Uwe Ligges >> >> >> On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> Win 7 64-bit >> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31) >> >> I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0 >> R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit) >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/ >> >> I found steps on following site; >> How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it) >> >> http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ >> >> >> I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on >> repo? TIA >> >> B.R. >> Stephen L >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> r-h...@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > -- > John C Frain > Economics Department > Trinity College Dublin > Dublin 2 > Ireland > www.tcd.ie/Economics/staff/frainj/home.html > mailto:fra...@tcd.ie > mailto:fra...@gmail.com > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Stephen Sefick ____________________________________ | Auburn University | | Department of Biological Sciences | | 331 Funchess Hall | | Auburn, Alabama | | 36849 | |___________________________________| | sas0...@auburn.edu | | http://www.auburn.edu/~sas0025 | |___________________________________| Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis "A big computer, a complex algorithm and a long time does not equal science." -Robert Gentleman ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
