Is that a method where a program that I write today would still run without changes in 10 years? Tim
-----Original Message----- From: R-help <r-help-boun...@r-project.org> On Behalf Of Richard O'Keefe Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 8:08 AM To: Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Problem with compatible library versions [External Email] There is a fairly straightforward way to load older versions of packages, and that is to use the 'groundhog' package. As the first sentence of https://groundhogr.com/ puts it: Make your R scripts reproducible by replacing library(pkg) with groundhog.library(pkg, date). pkg can be a vector of package names or a single name. On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 20:58, Uwe Ligges <lig...@statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote: > > > On 10.10.2023 17:34, Sabine Braun wrote: > > On the github website I have reported several bugs with new versions > > of the tidyverse group (probably dplyr) which prevent me from using > > R normally. I wanted to go back to older versions but this seems not > > bo be easy. I downloaded R 4.1.2. and Rtools 40 but the library > > versions > > So this is on Windows. > > Actually, if you install R-4.1.2 and use a clean library and install > binaries, then you should get binary installation from CRAN that fit > to the R-4.1.x series. > > If you want to install older package versions, then you have to > install these one by one from sources, unfortunately. > > Best, > Uwe Ligges > > > > > installed are still the newest ones. I was able to install dplyr 1.0.7. > > manually but there are error messages on incompatibility when > > loading this version. Is there a possibility to load older library > > versions which alre compatible ? > > > > Thank you very much! > > > > Best regards > > > > Sabine Braun > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat/ > .ethz.ch%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fr-help&data=05%7C01%7Ctebert%40ufl.edu > %7C86c81ebb0b184971b4eb08dbca52d5b3%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84 > %7C0%7C0%7C638326229351781447%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAw > MDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sda > ta=kEpdr7GlTQwcaKCMfI0NJfWXrgCshp5DVALyiu%2FHG4I%3D&reserved=0 > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.