[R] Getting an older version of a package

[stephen sefick]

if you are on a .nix then in a terminal move to the directory that
contains the tar ball of the packages and type R CMD install
foo.tar.bz
hope this helps

Stephen Sefick

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Le Wang <ruser.le at gmail.com> wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch,
>
> Many thank you for your reply. I did try to download the older
> versions from CRAN. But I am not quite sure how to compile the source
> form. I tried using the option "install package(s) from local zip
> files" in R, but it didn't work. It simply gave the following msg
>
>> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
> updating HTML package descriptions
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
>> On 24/05/2009 4:00 PM, Le Wang wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time in advance.
>>>
>>> I am using an add-on package from Cran. After I updated this package,
>>> some of my programs don't work any more. I was wondering if there is
>>> anything like version control so that I could use the older version of
>>> that package; or if I could manually install the previous version and
>>> how I could acheive it? I am not a regular R user; although it is
>>> supposed to be very easy, after spending many hours on this, I still
>>> haven't figured out how to proceed. Your help will be greatly
>>> appreciated.
>>
>> CRAN has the older versions of the package available in source form. You
>> need to download one of those and install it:  but watch out for other
>> packages that depend on the newer one.  In the long run, it's probably a
>> better investment of your time to fix your programs to work with the new
>> package.  (Or possibly report to the package maintainer if they have
>> introduced a bug.)
>>
>> Prior to R 2.9.0, it was possible to install multiple different versions of
>> packages, but this never worked perfectly, and it has been dropped.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
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