On 9/9/2005 10:11 PM, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: > On 9/9/05, Duncan Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've just committed some changes to allow R to be built and to use >> MikTeX without needing the Rd.sty files to be installed to localtexmf. >> Unfortunately, the changes are not compatible with other TeX packages, >> so if you're not using MikTeX you'll need to edit a couple of the config >> files (or set an environment variable). >> >> I'd appreciate hearing of any problems during the alpha or beta test period. >> >> A binary build containing the changes should be on CRAN tomorrow or the >> next day. Look for revision 35546 or higher. > > The above improvement was one of the key things one had to look out > for in installing R that was not already covered in the R setup procedure. > > The other one is to copy the libraries from your old R version to your > new one (unless you want to share libraries among versions). I have > a batch file in the devel version of batchfiles to do that but if this were > made part of the installation procedure I could eliminate it or if it > were included it would be much less necessary.
I've just committed a change to the installer that partially addresses this. Now, when a user does an install, the installer records the version number and path in the registry. This way you can have multiple versions installed at once and there's a well-defined way to find them. (Well, there will be as soon as we've had time to release multiple versions that do this.) There's also a bit more help for non-admins to do installs. So an admin who installs just one copy of R will have something like this in their registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\R-core] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\R-core\R] "InstallPath"="F:\\R\\R-2.2.0alpha" "Current Version"="2.2.0 alpha" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\R-core\R\2.2.0 alpha] "InstallPath"="F:\\R\\R-2.2.0alpha" while a non-admin will get just this: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\R-core] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\R-core\R] [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\R-core\R\2.2.0 alpha] "InstallPath"="C:\\Documents and Settings\\test\\My Documents\\R\\R-2.2.0alpha" If you want to see previously installed versions, you should search through HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\R-core\R and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\R-core\R to see what's there. This went in to revision 35562 a few minutes ago; I'm not sure how long it will take to propagate to the alpha tarball and to the build on CRAN. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel