[R] Upgrade R?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 10.11.2011 17:53, Kevin Burton wrote:
> The problem with this documentation is two-fold. One it seems to concentrate
> on building from source which I don't need. Two it doesn't address the
> upgade. I have a number of packages and so I need to do what has been
> suggested and install the latest version *first*. Then copy the libraries
> (packages). Then uninstall the previous version. It is on this last step
> that I am stuck on right now. The last link on uninstalling R manually was
> what I needed. Thank you.

Just delete the directory.

Uwe Ligges




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> Kevin
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> From: jose Bartolomei [mailto:surfprjab at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:19 AM
> To: rkevinburton at charter.net; R Help
> Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?
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> Hi,
> Don't know if this will help you but...
> In my short experience and following the guidelines you should first
> uninstall R.
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> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-Window
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> Unistall it from the Windows control panel.
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> The old R version libraries file will be kept on machine.
> For example : C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\library
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> Then install the new version via:
> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-Window
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> You can copy/paste libraries from the old version R library file to the new
> one.
> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.14.0\library
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> There is too an function named:
> ?update.packagee
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> If above was what you did, then there is a post on Uninstalling R manually:
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> http://learnserver.csd.univie.ac.at/rcomwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:uninstalling_r
> _manually
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> Regards,
> Jose
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>> From: rkevinburton at charter.net
>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:07:20 -0600
>> Subject: Re: [R] Upgrade R?
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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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