[R] Updating R

Jason Turner jasont at indigoindustrial.co.nz
Wed Jan 15 15:08:03 CET 2003


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:45:10PM +0100, CG Pettersson wrote:
> Hi!
> The installing and updating functions for packages in R (install.package() , update.package()) really impresses me in behavior.
...
> Is there any similar smooth ways of updating the R-version as there is for packages? I´ve looked in all places I can think of but can´t find any hints.

No.  You download the latest copy, and install it.  On Windows, just
delete the old directory after the new version is successfully
installed.  In your case, (assuming Windows in an English locale) the
old directory would be  c:\Program Files\R\rw1051

Cheers

Jason
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