[R] Upgrading

[DEEPANKAR BASU]

Thanks for the comments. I had got Thomas' message wrong the first time. Now, I have downloaded and re-installed the latest version of R. After reading the "administration and maintenance" manual, I added

deb http://cran.R-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu dapper/

to my sources.list file and used apt-get to install the latest version. After the installation, I used update.packages() from with R to update all the packages. Let me know if this was what was required or I made some mistake. 

I have two questions:
1. When a new version of R is released (every 6 months or so I believe) will I have to uninstall the version of R in my machine and then download and install the latest version?
2. When I used update.packages() from within R (after installing the latest version), I still got the following warning messages:

Warning messages:
1: installation of package 'cluster' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
2: installation of package 'mgcv' had non-zero exit status in: install.packages(update[, "Package"], instlib, contriburl = contriburl,
3: cannot create HTML package index in: tools:::unix.packages.html(.Library)

I cannot understand what to make of these?

Thanks for all the help.

Deepankar



----- Original Message -----
From: Petr Pikal <petr.pikal at precheza.cz>
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:47 am
Subject: Re: [R] Upgrading

> Hi
> 
> as the addition to Thomas's answer.
> 
> On 19 Dec 2006 at 15:20, Thomas Lumley wrote:
> 
> Date sent:      	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:20:18 -0800 (PST)
> From:           	Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu>
> To:             	DEEPANKAR BASU <basu.15 at osu.edu>
> Copies to:      	R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject:        	Re: [R] Upgrading
> 
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, DEEPANKAR BASU wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > As per Thomas' advice, I upgraded R by using 
> "update.packages()" and
> > > got the following warning messages:
> > 
> > That was not my advice on how to upgrade. update.packages() updates
> > the packages. You need to download a new version of R itself.  You
> > will then need to update or reinstall the packages. The warning
> > messages are because you are updating to versions of the packages 
> that> do not run on your old version of R.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > >
> > > Another question: what is the command for renaming an existing
> > > variable?
> 
> e.g. if the variable is in data frame
> 
> names(your.data)[position.of.old.column.name] <- "new.column.name"
> BTW, reading et least some docummentation could help you a lot with 
> these issues.
> 
> HTH
> Petr
> 
> 
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > > Deepankar
> > >
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> > >
> > 
> > Thomas Lumley                	Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
> > tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
> > 
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> 
> Petr Pikal
> petr.pikal at precheza.cz
> 
>