On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, michael watson (IAH-C) wrote: > Hi > > I wondered what the standard procedure was for upgrading from one version of R to > the next. I currently have R 1.7.1 and want the latest release, R 1.8.0. I am > running SUSE linux 8.2. The main thing is that I want to keep all of the libraries > that I have installed for R 1.7.1 without having to re-install them. > > I tried the rpm but that didn't really work :-( > > I then tried installing from source and that worked. I then copied my library/ > folder across to the new installation, but now I get lots of error messages along > the lines of: > > Error in grep("\\w", platform) : 5 arguments passed to "grep" which requires 6. > > So, my question being, how do I upgrade from R version 1.7.1 to R 1.8.0 and keep all > of my libraries intact? >
You should not install your packages to the library path of R itself but to something like `$HOME/lib/R' and tell R about it (via the R_LIBS environment variable, see section 4 of R Installation and Administration). Note that in contrast recommended packages may be installed in R's install directory and that is what's happens by default. Best, Torsten > Thanks > Mick > > ______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help