[R] help with updating to R2.7
Gabor Grothendieck
ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu May 8 16:51:47 CEST 2008
That's not what movedir.bat and copydir.bat in batchfiles do. They
will not overwrite any files.
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:40 AM, ravi <rv15i at yahoo.se> wrote:
> Hi,
> Ouch! That really hurt. But I get the point.
> Here's what I did now. I copied all the package folders from R2.6, except for the R.css file, and copied them into the R2.7 folder.
> In the process, I overwrote the common files that came with the installation of R2.7.
> Here's the output that I obtained in R2.7 :
> > library()
> Error in unique.default(ans) :
> 2 arguments passed to .Internal(unique) which requires 3
>
> > update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE)
> Error: could not find function "update.packages"
>
> My intention with my previous mail was to check and obtain confirmation on details like what I should do with the R.css file.
> But I realise that I should have then restricted myself to that single question.
> That way, I would not be wasting the valuable time of the R list experts, from whom I have received a lot of help previously.
> After reading the FAQ once again, I am guessing that the problem could be a case of the internet downloading functions failing.
> As suggested in the FAQ, I tried the following commands :
> > "path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy=http://gannet/ http_proxy_user=ask
> Error: unexpected symbol in ""path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy"
> > "path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy=http://user:pass@gannet:80/
> Error: unexpected symbol in ""path_to_R\bin\Rgui.exe" http_proxy"
> Should I run the above commands in R, or in the windows command window?
>
> Thanking You,
> Ravi
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca>
> To: ravi <rv15i at yahoo.se>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>
> Sent: Thursday, 8 May, 2008 2:57:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [R] help with updating to R2.7
>
>
>
> On 5/8/2008 8:30 AM, ravi wrote:
> > I know that it would be best if I reproduced the exact error messages, but I have tried so many different things now
> > and have lost track of the exact error messages at each stage.
>
> This is not a reasonable request. Rather than trying those two methods
> one more time, and recording what goes wrong, you expect someone on the
> list to do it for you? If the advice was in the FAQ, presumably it
> works for others, so the reason it didn't work for you is likely that
> you misinterpreted part of it, or your system has a unique problem, etc.
> The *only* way someone could diagnose that would be to see the error
> messages.
>
> You need to use some common sense when you're asking for help.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
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