i'll check that, yup. I guess at one point in the past I did user level
installs. Cleaned that up and i'll see what happens. Thx

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen <
kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> When you install from the GUi you can either do a system wide install
> (in /Library/...) or you can do a user-level install (in
> ~/Library/...).
>
> You can see where R searches for packages by doing
>  .libPaths()
>
> I expect that the first element will be somewhere in your home dir.
>
> I don't use the GUI so I have forgotten how you control whether you do
> a local or system-wide (for all users) install of a new package, but
> it seems like the GUI (with your setup) always installs into the
> system-wide dir.
>
> Kasper
>
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 5:06 PM, steven mosher <mosherste...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I was having issues installing the latest version of ' raster'  from
> CRAN.
> > The behavior was that the repository showed a version 1.4-10 available.
> So I
> > installed it using the GUI installer. In installed properly as 1.4-10.
> >
> > Then I switched to the package manager to load the package. The GUI for
> the
> > manager had two instances of 'raster'. When previewed the documentation
> file
> > indicated raster 1.4.7.
> >
> > I Loaded the package and  sessionInfo() had package 1.4-7 loaded.
> >
> > Figuring I might have screwed something up. I did the following.
> >
> > 1. Updated my system for the latest System patches.
> >   10.5.8  Build 9L31a
> >
> > 2. Remove R from ..Library/Frameworks/R.Framework
> >
> > 3. Remove R.app both the 64bit and 32 bit.
> >
> > 4  Remove all raster components ( builds from Forge that the developer
> and I
> > were testing) basically all the tar files.
> >
> > 5. I still have GDal, and Proj, and Geos Installed.
> >
> > 6. Download R and GUI  Fresh from Cran
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
> > x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0
> >
> > locale:
> > [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_2.11.1
> >>
> >
> > With No contributed packages loaded, I open the GUI  Installer:
> >
> > The column that reflects the "installed version" has entries for packages
> > That I had previously installed, But have not installed
> > with this fresh and clean R install. ( XML, uncompress, survival,spatial,
> > sp,raster 1.4-7.....)
> >
> > When I install raster using the GUI I get this
> >
> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> > [1] tools_2.11.1
> > trying URL '
> >
> http://cran.cnr.Berkeley.edu/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.11/raster_1.4-10.tgz
> > '
> > Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1319282 bytes (1.3 Mb)
> > opened URL
> > ==================================================
> > downloaded 1.3 Mb
> >
> >
> > The downloaded packages are in
> >
> /var/folders/ea/eaXeR9KIEZSbgaDPdoLSwU+++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpAvZAyO/downloaded_packages
> >>
> >
> > Then
> >
> > library("raster")
> > Loading required package: sp
> > raster version 1.4-7 (24-August-2010)
> >>
> >
> > when I check the documentation using the package manager GUI, it says
> >  raster 1.4.7
> >
> > when I check the raster folder in R.frameworks. I see this: ( description
> > file)
> >
> > Package: raster
> > Type: Package
> > Title: Geographic analysis and modeling with raster data
> > Version: 1.4-10
> > Date: 28-August-2010
> > Depends: methods, sp, R (>= 2.8.0)
> > Suggests: rgdal (>= 0.5-33), ncdf, igraph, tcltk, lattice, rgl
> > Author: Robert J. Hijmans & Jacob van Etten
> > Maintainer: Robert J. Hijmans <r.hijm...@gmail.com>
> > Description: Reading, writing, manipulating, analyzing and modeling of
> >        gridded spatial data. The package implements basic and
> >        high-level functons, as well as map algebra. Processing of very
> >        large files is supported.
> > License: GPL (>= 3)
> > URL: http://raster.r-forge.r-project.org/
> > Repository: CRAN
> > Repository/R-Forge/Project: raster
> > Repository/R-Forge/Revision: 1137
> > Date/Publication: 2010-08-29 07:13:20
> > Packaged: 2010-08-28 20:51:14 UTC; rforge
> > Built: R 2.11.1; ; 2010-08-30 06:28:07 UTC; unix
> >
> > When I check the HTML subfolder in raster I find this file
> >
> > 00Index.html
> >
> >
> > This is the file that should be displayed when you select a package in
> the
> > package MANAGER GUI.
> >
> > This file is CORRECT. Index for raster 1.4.10.
> >
> >
> > So, I have to conclude that some resources are left hanging around after
> I
> > uninstalled R. For some reason.
> >
> >
> > Am I missing something? and how do I get raster 1.4.10 to load and why is
> > 1.4.7 left hanging around after I uninstalled R and all packages
> >
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