[R] Pros and Cons of R

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 22 May 2008, Monica Pisica wrote:

> I don't consider packages as up-grades, i consider them as 
> enhancements ..... When a new R version is in place you 
> cannot up-grade your old R version, you have to do a new 
> installation and re-load all the packages you used to have 
> and delete / un-install the old version....

ummm -- this is of course a function of the package manager 
and operating system being used, and not of R intrinsicly; 
under an RPM package manager, this issue is not present (the 
CentOS community linux distribution)

-- Russ herrold