[R] New R - recompiling all packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Most packages do not need to be re-installed, but R 1.8.0 has some nicer 
formatting of help pages so you may want to do so, and I am reinstalling 
all packages that make use of the methods package and so have saved 
images.

For Bioconductor you need to ask on their list, but my understanding is 
that many of the packages have been updated for 1.8.0 and so you need to 
get new versions.  Packages effects and tree have updated versions for 
1.8.0 which update.packages() will pick up once your CRAN mirror gets 
updated (they are currently in 1.8.0/Other).

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 Arne.Muller at aventis.com wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm running R 1.7.1, and I've installed some additional packages such a
> Bioconductor. Do I've to re-install all the additional packages when ugrading
> to R 1.8.0 (i.e. are there compile in dependencies)?
> 
> 	thanks for your help,
> 
> 	Arne

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