[R] copying previously installed libraries to R 2.3.0

[Gabor Grothendieck]

A corrected version is now in batchfiles_0.2-8.zip in:

   http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles/

and will propogate to the mirrors shortly.


On 4/28/06, Xiaohua Dai <ecoinformatics at gmail.com> wrote:
> copydir.bat wont work for libraries such as clim.pact, haplo.stats,
> hier.part, pls.pcr, R.matlab, R.oo. It will truncate new directories as
> clim, haplo, hier, pls, R.
>
> On 4/26/06, Thomas Harte <tom_harte at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > hi all,
> >
> > is there a new mechanism in R 2.3.0 for copying libraries from, say, R
> > 2.2.1 to R 2.3.0? i ask because gabor grothendieck comments in his
> > copydir.bat (from gabor's batchfiles at:
> > http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles/batchfiles_0.2-5.zip ):
> >
> > ``::   I personally upgraded my 2.1.0 to 2.2.0 this way so it seems ok
> > until
> > ::   R replaces this with something better which is expected for 2.3.0.
> > '''
> >
> > see also the posting below.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > thomas.
> >
> >
> > [R] copy contributed packages from R 2.2.0 to 2.2.1
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> >     From: Ronnie Babigumira <rb.glists>
> > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:58:36 +0100
> >    Hi Helli, this came up last week, Here are some of the replys posted
> >
> > 1.
> > In http://cran.r-project.org/contrib/extra/batchfiles/batchfiles_0.2-5.zip
> >
> > are two Windows XP batch files:
> >
> > movedir.bat
> > copydir.bat
> >
> > which will move the packages (which is much faster and suitable if you
> > don't need the old version of R any more) or copy
> > the packages (which takes longer but preserves the old version).
> >
> > 2.
> > x <- installed.packages()[,1]
> > install.packages(x)
> >
> > 3.
> > This is one reason we normally recommend that you install into a separate
> > library.  Then update.packages(checkBuilt =
> > TRUE) is all that is needed. However,
> >
> > foo <- installed.packages()
> > as.vector(foo[is.na(foo[, "Priority"]), 1])
> >
> > will give you a character vector which you can feed to install.packages(),
> > so it's not complex to do manually.
> >
> > 4.
> > If the previous installation is still alive, fire it up and
> >
> > pS <- packageStatus()
> > pkgs <- pS$inst$Package[!pS$inst$Priority %in% c("base", "recommended")]
> > save(pkgs, file = "foo")
> >
> > In the new installation,
> >
> > load("foo")
> > install.packages(pkgs)
> >
> > Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:
> > > hi R-users,
> > >
> > > a few days ago R 2.2.1 came out. on my win xp i'installed R 2.2.0. along
> > the time i've installed a lot of contributed packages. my
> > internet-connection is not very fast.
> > >
> > > so my question: is it possible after installing R 2.2.1 to do copy/paste
> > the contributed packages from the C:\Programme\R221 to the
> > C:\Programme\R2.2.1- location in the files system?
> > >
> > > or have i to download and install the packages new?
> > >
> > >
> > > greetings from the snowy austria
> > > merry christmas
> > > helli
> > >
> > > system
> > > R.2.2.0
> > > win xp
> > >
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> > Received on Fri Dec 23 2005 - 15:58:36 EST
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