
Hello Maura,

> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:07:44 +0200
> From: mauede@alice.it
> To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] shall I uninstall an old R installation in advance of	installing a new one ?
> 
> I have resumed developing R code on SuSE/Linux version 11.1
> I installed the latest 64-bit R version available for my platform. 
> Accidentally I figured out I still had an old R installation that, surprisingly, was not wiped out 
> by the new SuSE installation from scratch.
> I suspect the new and old R versions got mixed up. 
> I would greatly appreciate some suggestions about restarting from scratch a new R installation.
> 
> My question is: how can I remove the old R installation so that no old files are left in the system ?

I am not familar with Suse, maybe you should remove R with a Suse equivalent of the command line 
apt-get remove 'name of the R package in Suse'

After that if some files or directory are not removed manually removed them with rm.

> 
> Moreover, if I choose to install the new R version without previous disk saving  ... where does R get installed (path) ?

For default path installation, please refer to the R-admin manual.
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html
 

Cheers,

- Martial


> Thank you.
> Maura
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> tutti i telefonini TIM!
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