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

[John Fox]

Dear Roger and Mike,

I used to do it this way, but it helps to keep the base and recommended 
packages, which are part of the R distribution, separate from the 
"contributed" packages.

John

At 09:54 AM 11/6/2002 -0800, Roger Peng wrote:
>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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