On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Martin Wegmann wrote: > Hello, > > On Friday 14 November 2003 23:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello - > > I am a fairly new user of R. I currently have R1.7 installed. I tried to > > install the KernSmooth package but a message tells me I need R1.8. Is there
Your installation of R 1.7.x should have KernSmooth installed! It is a recommended package. The later version available only makes use of the new documentation features of R 1.8.x. > > a way to update to R1.8 while in R1.7 in the same manner that I can use > > "update.packages", or do I have to install R1.8 in a separate directory and > > re-install the many packages I have already installed in R1.7? Thanks in > > advance for your help - > > which operating system are you using? > > I only can tell it for Linux > you have to install R 1.8.0 the "usual" way, not inside R > your previously installed R packages should be still there after your upgrade. > > I assume it is +/- the same as in windows Not quite (it will install into a parallel directory) but this is covered in the rw-FAQ. Note that quite a few packages need to be re-installed for 1.8.x (if installed under a version before 1.8.0). Also please note there is no R 1.7 and no R 1.8: try looking more closely. -- 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