[R] Upgrade R?

[John Kane]

You might want to try Revo Uninstaller.  Reportedly it hunts down and kills just about anything connected to a program that  you want to uninstall.  I have only used it once but it seems to work.  There is a free and a paid version. I have the free one. 

--- On Thu, 11/10/11, Kevin Burton <rkevinburton at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Kevin Burton <rkevinburton at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [R] Upgrade R?
> To: Steve_Friedman at nps.gov
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org, r-help-bounces at r-project.org
> Received: Thursday, November 10, 2011, 10:22 AM
> I downloaded and installed the latest
> (2.14.0). It works just fine. But, I
> still have 2.13.2 installed and when I try to uninstall it
> I get the error
> that I showed at the beginning of this thread.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve_Friedman at nps.gov
> [mailto:Steve_Friedman at nps.gov]
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> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 9:17 AM
> To: Kevin Burton
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org;
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> Subject: Re: [R] Upgrade R?
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> Why don't you just download the latest release from CRAN -
> R.  It is the
> recommended approach to installing R.
> 
> Steve Friedman Ph. D.
> Ecologist  / Spatial Statistical Analyst Everglades
> and Dry Tortugas
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> Homestead, Florida 33034
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> Steve_Friedman at nps.gov
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> Since apparently there is no one familiar with this error
> message let me
> rephrase the question. Is there a 'manual' process to fully
> remove a version
> of 'R' from my machine? This is a Window PC running Windows
> 7.
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> Thank you.
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> Kevin
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> From: Kevin Burton [mailto:rkevinburton at charter.net]
> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 2:23 PM
> To: 'r-help at r-project.org'
> Subject: Upgrade R?
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> I am trying to upgrade to R 2.14 from R 2.13.1 I have
> compied all the
> libraries from the 'library' directory in my existing
> installation (2.13.1)
> to the installed R 2.14. Now I want to uninstall the old
> installation (R
> 2.13.1) and I get the error:
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> Internal Error: Cannot find utCompiledCode record for this
> version of the
> uninstaller.
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> Any ideas?
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> Kevin
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