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

[Roger Peng]

How about just copying the library directory from your 1.5.1 directory to
your 1.6.1 directory?  Then run update.packages() from R.

-roger
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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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