Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-07 Thread Thibaut Jombart
Dear Jason, I don't know if this interests you, but one thing you might want to do while 'upgrading' (in fact it is just a new installation) is re-install all the packages that were installed on your previous R version. I made a small script to do so: ### reinst.pack <- function(pathToOldR){

Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Hiemstra
and ofcourse (if using ubuntu) you need the ubuntu CRAN repository as Dirk Eddelbuettel suggested and not the debian as I suggested. sorry. Paul Jason Lee schreef: Hi, I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran archive about the related matter and could not fi

Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Hiemstra
...in addition. These are the lines in my sources.list for CRAN: deb http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch-cran/ deb-src http://cran.at.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian etch-cran/ This repository holds R 2.7.1. cheers, Paul Jason Lee schreef: Hi, I am aware this is somehow FAQ ques

Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Hiemstra
Hi Jason, From your last e-mail I understood that you use Ubuntu, but it would help if you mentioned that. But enough comments from me, to a constructive answer :). To get access to the most recent versions of R and a selection of the packages you can add CRAN as a debian repository. http:/

Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-06 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 7 July 2008 at 12:07, Jason Lee wrote: | I checked from Ubuntu distro and the latest package only show 2.5.1. Anyone | has the similar problem too? In a particular (and now outdated) release of Ubuntu, yes. For all versions, see https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r-base and for current

Re: [R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Lee
I checked from Ubuntu distro and the latest package only show 2.5.1. Anyone has the similar problem too? On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Jason Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran > archive about the related matter a

[R] How can i do an automatic upgrade of R 2.5.1 to R 2.7.1

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Lee
Hi, I am aware this is somehow FAQ question but I ve been searching from R-cran archive about the related matter and could not find anything closer to this. I want to upgrade my R version from 2.5.1. to 2.7.1. What is the best way to load the latest one apart from installing the packages (tar.gz)