[R] Upgrade R?

[Uwe Ligges]

On 14.11.2011 22:42, Gene Leynes wrote:
> I have had similar problems.
>
> I have several installations of R and now I have no control over which one
> opens when I try opening a RData file.  The RGUI is registered more than
> once, but they all have the exact same appearance in the "choose programs"
> menu.

I load data files using load(). I could even drag and drop it to my R 
instance.
If you keep all old R versions around, all can manage to load Rdata 
files, so they are registered unless you remove that part from the 
registry. But R really cannot know which version you keep for opening 
files. If you don't want the old versions: uninstall. If you don't want 
that R uses the registry, just tell the installer to avoid it.


>
> It's become particularly annoying now that new versions of R seem to be
> published with ever increasing frequency.

You statement is based on which facts, please?

We had exactly two major releases a year for 10 years now (11 years 
back, when 1.0.0 came out, there were 3-4 major releases).

Uwe Ligges






>
>
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Kevin Burton<rkevinburton at charter.net>wrote:
>
>> I am also using statConn so I will let you know if I hear anything new.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cem Girit [mailto:girit at comcast.net]
>> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 8:52 AM
>> To: 'Kevin Burton'
>> Cc: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?
>>
>> Hello Kevin,
>>
>>         Thank you. I will delete the folder and run an application called
>> CCleaner (free). That will remove all the broken registry entries.
>>
>>         There should be a problem free update path for R installation. As
>> you rightfully mentioned the R- manual is not clear about package update
>> issues. I received many helpful suggestions on the update path but some of
>> the them were contradictory in the order of steps to be taken.  I am also
>> using statConn (DCOM) interface for programming.  So my problems are
>> multifold.  I will compile the answers I received on the R version update
>> issue and publish them so that that the experts could put them into more
>> effective use.
>>
>>         Sincerely,
>>
>> Cem
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kevin Burton [mailto:rkevinburton at charter.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 4:11 PM
>> To: 'Cem Girit'
>> Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?
>>
>> I don't know if it was correct but I just removed the directory and then
>> searched and removed all instances in the registry that referred to 2.13.1
>> (in my case searching for this seemed to only return references to 'R'). I
>> have since been given some links that address specific registry entries but
>> I haven't had any problem yet with my 'slash and burn' approach. It removed
>> it from the 'Install/Uninstall' list with windows so it seems to have be
>> removed and the disk space that 2.13.2 took up has been reclaimed.
>>
>> Hope this helps. Let me know if you find any more definitive answers.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Cem Girit [mailto:girit at comcast.net]
>> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 6:33 PM
>> To: 'Kevin Burton'
>> Subject: RE: [R] Upgrade R?
>>
>> Hello Kevin,
>>
>>         I am getting the same error "utCompiledCode..." since I  installed
>> R2.14 while R2.13 existed.  How did you get rid of R2.13 eventually? Did
>> you
>> just delete it? If so, how did you clean the registry?
>>
>>         Thank you,
>>
>> Cem
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org]
>> On
>> Behalf Of Kevin Burton
>> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:54 AM
>> To: 'jose Bartolomei'; 'R Help'
>> Subject: Re: [R] Upgrade R?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> Don't know if this will help you but...
>> In my short experience and following the guidelines you should first
>> uninstall R.
>>
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-Window
>> s
>>
>> Unistall it from the Windows control panel.
>>
>> The old R version libraries file will be kept on machine.
>> For example : C:\Program Files\R\R-2.13.0\library
>>
>> Then install the new version via:
>>
>> http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html#Installing-R-under-Window
>> s
>>
>> 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
>>
>> There is too an function named:
>> ?update.packagee
>>
>> If above was what you did, then there is a post on Uninstalling R manually:
>>
>>
>> http://learnserver.csd.univie.ac.at/rcomwiki/doku.php?id=wiki:uninstalling_r
>> _manually
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jose
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Internal Error: Cannot find utCompiledCode record for this version of
>>> the uninstaller.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
>>>
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