[R] Rcmdr doesn't seem to work

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 v.demartino2 at virgilio.it wrote:

> Got it and now it all works....BUT I'm puzzled by the fact that I systematically
> update all the packages in R 2.0.1 using 'update.packages()'. Why in this
> case R was unable to find the obsolete versions of Rcmdr and rgl and substitued
> the with new ones?

Were they `obselete versions'?  Almost surely not, just built against the 
wrong version of R.

As from R 2.1.0 there is update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) for precisely 
this job.  Update.packages() updates the versions of the packages, not of 
R: why did you think otherwise?

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