RE: [R] How to upgrade R

2003-10-21 Thread David Brahm
Andy Liaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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? I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll tell you what we do. We have built /res/R/R-1.6.2,

RE: [R] How to upgrade R

2003-10-21 Thread Liaw, Andy
It's actually easier than I thought (and perhaps than you described). What Prof. Ripley suggested, combined with the options to the configure script, should make this fairly straight-forward, even with make install. Cheers, Andy From: David Brahm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Liaw [EMAIL

Re: [R] How to upgrade R

2003-10-20 Thread Torsten Hothorn
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

RE: [R] How to upgrade R

2003-10-20 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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