On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Liaw, Andy wrote: > What I do is to separate packages that shipped with R separate from other > contributed packages from CRAN, so that when I upgrade, I can wipe clean the > old R and re-install while keeping all other packages in place. > > What's not clear to me is a good way of keeping two versions of R > simultaneously (for ease of transition). Can anyone suggest a good strategy > for doing that on *nix?
What I do is to have them installed in different dirs, and have links to the bin/R files in my ~/bin directory, called names like R1.7.1, Rpat, Rdev. And I have gannet% cat ~/.Renviron R_LIBS=/users/ripley/R/library so all of them can see the contributed packages I have installed (which is fine except where those get to be version-specific when I normally install in the main library tree). > > -----Original Message----- > > From: michael watson (IAH-C) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 5:49 AM > > To: r-help > > Subject: [R] How to upgrade R > > > > > > 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. That may not be a good idea. At least those using saved images need to be reinstalled because of changes in the methods package, and the help translations have been improved. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help