[R] About upgrade R

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote:
> wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part
> of every base version install BY Default...... just saying

At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I 
do not want that everything is updated and I can't switch back to my 
last stable version.

Uwe Ligges


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> 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>:
>> Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs.
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>> If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not
>> the R base library) you can simply run
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>> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)
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>> If not ...
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>> Uwe Ligges
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>> On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Win 7 64-bit
>>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>>>
>>> I want to upgrade R to version 2.12.0
>>> R-2.12.0 for Windows (32/64 bit)
>>> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
>>>
>>> I found steps on following site;
>>> How to upgrade R on windows – another strategy (and the R code to do it)
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>>> http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/
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>>>
>>> I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on
>>> repo?  TIA
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>>> B.R.
>>> Stephen L
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