Re: [R] Ignoring version numbers when installing packages...

2012-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/03/2012 12:47 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: Follow-up: r-forge seems to have some weirdnesses with version numbers, and since this is an incubation site, there are occasions where the version numbers were put in based on whatever the programmer was using at a time (e.g. other versions were

Re: [R] Ignoring version numbers when installing packages...

2012-03-30 Thread Jonathan Greenberg
Follow-up: r-forge seems to have some weirdnesses with version numbers, and since this is an incubation site, there are occasions where the version numbers were put in based on whatever the programmer was using at a time (e.g. other versions were simply not tested, so they erred on the safe side).

Re: [R] Ignoring version numbers when installing packages...

2012-03-30 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 30/03/2012 12:05 PM, Jonathan Greenberg wrote: R-helpers: I'm trying to install a package from r-forge, and I'm wondering if there is a way to force R to install a package, even if the package "requires" a certain version of R (short of modifying the DESCRIPTION file)? Cheers! You don't gi