[R] About upgrade R

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Ajay

> wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part
> of every base version install BY Default...... just saying

I also have this doubt?  The packages have been updated.  Are those packages 
updated belong to version 2.12 OR still version 2.11.1

In Linux/Unix if the latest version, say 5.2.0, and the running version is 5.1.0 
I have to upgrade the version NOT the packages.  I have no idea on R

B.R.
Stephen L




----- Original Message ----
From: Ajay Ohri <ohri2007 at gmail.com>
To: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Cc: Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com>; r-help at r-project.org
Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 12:59:22 AM
Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R

wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part
of every base version install BY Default...... just saying



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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.
>
> If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not
> the R base library) you can simply run
>
> update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE)
>
> If not ...
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
> On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote:
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/
>>/
>>
>>
>> I wonder is there a straight forwards way to upgrade the package direct on
>> repo?  TIA
>>
>> B.R.
>> Stephen L
>>
>>
>>
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