Generally I have several versions of R installed on any PC running Windows 7 and have never had any problem choosing which version of R was to be the default one. In the past the updated version did not always register as the default but there was and is a utility RSetReg.exe in the bin directory of each distribution which appeared to solve the problem. RStudio, Vincent's Goulet's emacs package for Windows and several other windows GUIs have facilities for setting the sefault R to use.
When installing an upgrade I do the following 1 Download and install the new version 2 Rename the library directory in the new distribution to librarytemp 3 Copy the library from the old version to the new distribution. 4 Copy/Move the contents of librarytemp to this library directory (I want to keep the updated base packages) 5 When I am satisfied that the old version is no longer required I uninstall it either from the start menu or the unins000.exe utility in the r distribution. When this is run any remaing files in the R distribution may be deleted. I have never had any r related problems with this procedure. (I have had problems with an anti-virus program but that is another matter. Best Regards John Best Regards John On 15 November 2011 08:58, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Kevin Burton <rkevinbur...@charter.net>wrote: > >> I am trying to upgrade to R 2.14 from R 2.13.1 I have compied all the >> libraries from the 'library' directory in my existing installation (2.13.1) >> to the installed R 2.14. Now I want to uninstall the old installation (R >> 2.13.1) and I get the error: >> >> >> >> Internal Error: Cannot find utCompiledCode record for this version of the >> uninstaller. >> >> >> > What I would try: reinstall the old version and then uninstall it - I > remember that similar approaches worked while I was still using windows > (Windows 2000) ... luckily long time ago. > > Cheers, > > Rainer > > >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> >> Kevin >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> 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 > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- 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.