[R] how to update installed packages to a new version of R?

[ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk]

This is covered in the rw-FAQ, questions 2.4 and 2.5.

I think I would uninstall rw1051, install rw1061, move the remaining files
in rw1051/library to some suitable place, set R_LIBS in .Renviron,
then fire up 1.6.1 and update the packages.

If you use a separate library for installed packages upgrading is very
easy.

On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Michael L Friendly wrote:

> I've just installed R 1.6.1 and would like to install all the
> contributed packages I had used in 1.5.1.
> It's not too hard to do this manually from Rgui, but I wondered if there
> is an easier way,
> something like writing the results of installed.packages() from 1.5.1 to
> a file and
> using that with install.packages() in 1.6.1, or just having 1.6.1 read
> what's in rw151/library.

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