[R] to run an older version of R on my machine

[Bogdan Tanasa]

thanks a lot, Alfredo ! did not know about Rswitch - very helpful !

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:39 PM Alfredo Cortell <
alfredo.cortell.nicolau using gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Bogdan,
>
> The way I do this is the following: I have different R versions installed,
> and then I downloaded and use Rswitch to change between versions. You just
> open it, select the version you want, and R will open in that version
> directly. It works with R and Rstudio in a MacOS HighSierra, although I
> have read that it doesn't work in every platform. I don't know about
> ubuntu. I would advise you to try it anyhow. Good luck with that!
>
> All the best,
>
> Alfredo
>
> El jue., 23 may. 2019 a las 21:38, Bogdan Tanasa (<tanasa using gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> if you could help me please with a solution to a simple question :
>>
>> i believe that my ubuntu machine automatically installed R 3.6.0 : when i
>> type : > R. it says :
>>
>> R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26) -- "Planting of a Tree"
>> Copyright (C) 2019 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>>
>> However, I need to use a previous version of R, namely R 3.5, that was
>> installed and did run on my Ubuntu machine, and I can see lots of folders
>> in the directory (a long list follows below) :
>>
>> /home/bogdan/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5
>>
>> Please would you advise how can I revert to R 3.5 instead of using R 3.6 .
>> Thanks a lot,
>>
>> bogdan
>>
>> ps : the list of folders in ~/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5
>>
>> abind/
>> acepack/
>> ALL/
>> alphahull/
>> amap/
>> annotate/
>> AnnotationDbi/
>> AnnotationFilter/
>> AnnotationForge/
>> apcluster/
>> ape/
>> aroma.light/
>> askpass/
>> assertthat/
>> backports/
>> base64enc/
>> bbmle/
>> beachmat/
>> beeswarm/
>> BH/
>> bibtex/
>> bindr/
>> bindrcpp/
>> Biobase/
>> BiocFileCache/
>> BiocGenerics/
>> biocGraph/
>> BiocInstaller/
>> BiocManager/
>> BiocNeighbors/
>> BiocParallel/
>> BiocStyle/
>> BiocVersion/
>> biocViews/
>> biomaRt/
>> Biostrings/
>> biovizBase/
>> bit/
>> bit64/
>> bitops/
>> bladderbatch/
>> blob/
>> bookdown/
>> brew/
>> broom/
>> BSgenome/
>> Cairo/
>> callr/
>> car/
>> carData/
>> Category/
>> caTools/
>> CCA/
>> CCP/
>> cellranger/
>> cellrangerRkit/
>> checkmate/
>> circlize/
>> cli/
>> clipr/
>> clisymbols/
>> coda/
>> colorspace/
>> combinat/
>> ComplexHeatmap/
>> contfrac/
>> corpcor/
>> corrplot/
>> cowplot/
>> crayon/
>> crosstalk/
>> cubature/
>> curl/
>> cvTools/
>> data.table/
>> DBI/
>> dbplyr/
>> DDRTree/
>> DelayedArray/
>> DelayedMatrixStats/
>> deldir/
>> densityClust/
>> DEoptimR/
>> desc/
>> DESeq/
>> DESeq2/
>> deSolve/
>> destiny/
>> devtools/
>> dichromat/
>> digest/
>> diptest/
>> distillery/
>> doBy/
>> docopt/
>> doParallel/
>> doRNG/
>> doSNOW/
>> dotCall64/
>> dplyr/
>> DropletUtils/
>> dtw/
>> dynamicTreeCut/
>> e1071/
>> EDASeq/
>> edgeR/
>> ellipse/
>> ellipsis/
>> elliptic/
>> EnrichmentBrowser/
>> enrichR/
>> EnsDb.Hsapiens.v86/
>> EnsDb.Mmusculus.v79/
>> ensembldb/
>> evaluate/
>> extRemes/
>> fansi/
>> fastcluster/
>> fastICA/
>> fda/
>> fields/
>> fitdistrplus/
>> fit.models/
>> flexmix/
>> FNN/
>> forcats/
>> foreach/
>> formatR/
>> Formula/
>> fpc/
>> fs/
>> futile.logger/
>> futile.options/
>> gage/
>> gbRd/
>> gdata/
>> genefilter/
>> geneplotter/
>> generics/
>> GenomeInfoDb/
>> GenomeInfoDbData/
>> GenomicAlignments/
>> GenomicFeatures/
>> GenomicRanges/
>> GEOquery/
>> GetoptLong/
>> GGally/
>> ggbeeswarm/
>> ggbio/
>> ggdendro/
>> ggfortify/
>> ggplot2/
>> ggrepel/
>> ggridges/
>> ggthemes/
>> gh/
>> git2r/
>> githubinstall/
>> Glimma/
>> GlobalOptions/
>> glue/
>> gmodels/
>> GO.db/
>> goftest/
>> googleVis/
>> GOplot/
>> GOstats/
>> gplots/
>> graph/
>> graphite/
>> gridExtra/
>> GSA/
>> GSEABase/
>> gtable/
>> gtools/
>> hash/
>> haven/
>> HDF5Array/
>> hdf5r/
>> hexbin/
>> highr/
>> Hmisc/
>> hms/
>> HSMMSingleCell/
>> htmlTable/
>> htmltools/
>> htmlwidgets/
>> httpuv/
>> httr/
>> hwriter/
>> hypergeo/
>> ica/
>> igraph/
>> impute/
>> ini/
>> inline/
>> IRanges/
>> irlba/
>> iterators/
>> jsonlite/
>> kBET/
>> KEGGgraph/
>> KEGGREST/
>> kernlab/
>> knitr/
>> labeling/
>> laeken/
>> lambda.r/
>> lars/
>> later/
>> latticeExtra/
>> lazyeval/
>> limma/
>> Linnorm/
>> lle/
>> lme4/
>> Lmoments/
>> lmtest/
>> locfit/
>> loo/
>> lsei/
>> lubridate/
>> M3Drop/
>> magrittr/
>> maps/
>> maptools/
>> markdown/
>> MAST/
>> Matrix/
>> MatrixModels/
>> matrixStats/
>> mclust/
>> MCMCglmm/
>> memoise/
>> metap/
>> mime/
>> minqa/
>> mixtools/
>> mnormt/
>> mockery/
>> modelr/
>> modeltools/
>> moments/
>> monocle/
>> munsell/
>> Mus.musculus/
>> mvoutlier/
>> mvtnorm/
>> NADA/
>> nloptr/
>> npsurv/
>> numDeriv/
>> openssl/
>> openxlsx/
>> OrganismDbi/
>> org.Hs.eg.db/
>> org.Mm.eg.db/
>> orthopolynom/
>> ouija/
>> packrat/
>> pathview/
>> pbapply/
>> pbkrtest/
>> pcaMethods/
>> pcaPP/
>> pcaReduce/
>> penalized/
>> permute/
>> PFAM.db/
>> pheatmap/
>> pillar/
>> pkgbuild/
>> pkgconfig/
>> pkgload/
>> pkgmaker/
>> PKI/
>> plogr/
>> plotly/
>> pls/
>> plyr/
>> plyranges/
>> png/
>> polyclip/
>> polynom/
>> prabclus/
>> praise/
>> preprocessCore/
>> prettyunits/
>> processx/
>> progress/
>> promises/
>> ProtGenerics/
>> proxy/
>> pryr/
>> ps/
>> purrr/
>> qlcMatrix/
>> quantreg/
>> R6/
>> randomForest/
>> ranger/
>> RANN/
>> rappdirs/
>> RBGL/
>> rcmdcheck/
>> RColorBrewer/
>> Rcpp/
>> RcppAnnoy/
>> RcppArmadillo/
>> RcppEigen/
>> RcppProgress/
>> RCurl/
>> Rdpack/
>> readr/
>> readxl/
>> refGenome/
>> registry/
>> reldist/
>> rematch/
>> remotes/
>> ReportingTools/
>> reprex/
>> reshape/
>> reshape2/
>> reticulate/
>> Rgraphviz/
>> rhdf5/
>> Rhdf5lib/
>> rio/
>> rJava/
>> rjson/
>> RJSONIO/
>> rlang/
>> RMariaDB/
>> rmarkdown/
>> R.methodsS3/
>> Rmisc/
>> RMTstat/
>> rngtools/
>> robCompositions/
>> robust/
>> robustbase/
>> ROCR/
>> R.oo/
>> Rook/
>> rprojroot/
>> rrcov/
>> Rsamtools/
>> rsconnect/
>> RSQLite/
>> rstan/
>> rstudioapi/
>> rsvd/
>> rtracklayer/
>> Rtsne/
>> RUnit/
>> R.utils/
>> RUVSeq/
>> rvest/
>> S4Vectors/
>> safe/
>> SC3/
>> scales/
>> scater/
>> scatterplot3d/
>> scde/
>> scfind/
>> scImpute/
>> scmap/
>> SCnorm/
>> scran/
>> scRNAseq/
>> scRNA.seq.funcs/
>> SDMTools/
>> segmented/
>> selectr/
>> sessioninfo/
>> Seurat/
>> sgeostat/
>> shape/
>> shiny/
>> ShortRead/
>> SingleCellExperiment/
>> slam/
>> SLICER/
>> smoother/
>> snow/
>> snowfall/
>> sourcetools/
>> sp/
>> spam/
>> SparseM/
>> sparsesvd/
>> spatstat/
>> spatstat.data/
>> spatstat.utils/
>> SPIA/
>> splancs/
>> sROC/
>> StanHeaders/
>> statmod/
>> stringi/
>> stringr/
>> SummarizedExperiment/
>> sva/
>> sys/
>> tensor/
>> tensorA/
>> testthat/
>> tibble/
>> tidyr/
>> tidyselect/
>> tidyverse/
>> tinytex/
>> topGO/
>> trimcluster/
>> tripack/
>> truncnorm/
>> TSCAN/
>> tsne/
>> TTR/
>> TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10.ensGene/
>> TxDb.Mmusculus.UCSC.mm10.knownGene/
>> UpSetR/
>> usethis/
>> utf8/
>> VariantAnnotation/
>> vcd/
>> vegan/
>> VennDiagram/
>> Vennerable/
>> venneuler/
>> VGAM/
>> VIM/
>> vipor/
>> viridis/
>> viridisLite/
>> WGCNA/
>> whisker/
>> withr/
>> WriteXLS/
>> xfun/
>> XML/
>> xml2/
>> xopen/
>> xtable/
>> xts/
>> XVector/
>> yaml/
>> zCompositions/
>> zip/
>> zlibbioc/
>> zoo/
>>
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