Hi Giovanni Using Ubuntu and MacOSX may not be irrelevant. I use Ubuntu and if I carry out a fresh install (e.g. after a new release - although I've stuck with 10.04 so far) then I always have to mess around, check the web etc to install external packages that R libraries I want to use rely on.
A good example would be libxml2-dev (which doesn't appear if you use Synaptic and search for xml2 - sigh) for using biomaRt etc etc. Just a heads up that the external software some R libraries rely on might not be installed on both systems. So installing a package on one system sucessfully doesn't mean you can alway expect it to install without incident on another. Best iain --- On Fri, 26/8/11, Giovanni Petris <gpet...@uark.edu> wrote: > From: Giovanni Petris <gpet...@uark.edu> > Subject: Re: [R] Synchronizing R libraries on N machines? > To: "Rainer M Krug" <r.m.k...@gmail.com> > Cc: r-help@r-project.org > Date: Friday, 26 August, 2011, 14:05 > Hi Rainer, > > This certainly helps, but it still requires to do some work > by hand. I > was hoping for something more automatic - but so far nobody > has > suggested a better approach. > > Thank you, > Giovanni > > > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 15:43 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Giovanni Petris > <gpet...@uark.edu> > > wrote: > > Hello! > > > > I am using R on > two different machines (under Ubuntu and OS X, > > but this > > is probably > irrelevant) and I would like to keep the two > > installations > > 'synchronized', > in particular in terms of installed packages. > > For > > example, if I > install package xxx on my Linux machine, I would > > like to > > find it > installed also on my Mac, and vice versa. > > > > I imagine this > to be a fairly common problem, so I would like > > to ask if > > anybody has > suggestions to share about it. Is there a way to > > make the > > synchronization > automatic? Painless? > > > > > > library()$result[,1] returns the names of the > installed packages. If > > you do this on one machine, then compare it with the > same outpout on > > the other machine, you can identify the packages which > are not > > installed, and you can install those. > > > > > > e.g.: > > x <- letters[1:10] > > y <- letters[5:20] > > lx[!(x %in% y)] > > > > > > returns > > "a" "b" "c" "d" > > > > > > which are in x, but not y. > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > > > Rainer > > > > > > returns the letters which are in > > > > Thank you in > advance for the suggestions. > > > > Best, > > Giovanni > > > > > > -- > > > > Giovanni > Petris <gpet...@uark.edu> > > Associate > Professor > > Department of > Mathematical Sciences > > University of > Arkansas - Fayetteville, AR 72701 > > Ph: (479) > 575-6324, 575-8630 (fax) > > http://definetti.uark.edu/~gpetris/ > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc > (Conservation > > Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > > Stellenbosch University > > South Africa > > > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 > 27 44 > > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 > 59 98 > > Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 > 10 27 44 > > > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > > > email: rai...@krugs.de > > > > Skype: RMkrug > > > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > ______________________________________________ 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.
