Hello dear R-help mailing list,

The other day I published a blog post (with some R code) to help R-users who
want to implement a simpler upgrading strategy for R (under windows - but
probably the same will be true of mac OS, I am not sure about Linux).

This e-mail has 3 goals: (a) To share, (b) to get feedback, and (c) to
propose to implement this strategy to R's core.
*
*
*a) Share*
The idea of this upgrading strategy is to save steps in upgrading.  When one
wishes to upgrade R, instead of doing the following three steps:
1) download new R and install
2) copy the "library" content from the old R to the new R
3) upgrade all of the packages (in the library folder) to the new version of
R.
You could instead just have steps 1 and 3, and skip step 2.
How?
By using a "global" library which will reside outside (and besides) of the
normal R installation folder.
Here is the link to the post where I explain how to do this with R running
under windows (and also supplied some R code to help with this move):
http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/
(Credit: this strategy was proposed by Dirk
Eddelbuettel<http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/>,
to whom I give my thanks)

*b) Feedback*
I would love to know if someone here can suggest when this strategy might
not be the best one.
I also welcome any suggestions for improving the code I wrote for helping
users make the transition to this upgrading system.

*c) R core implementation ?!*
I hope I am not being rude (or jumping into any open doors) in asking this
but...
What do you think about implementing this strategy into the R basic
installation?



With honest respect and care,
Tal

----------------Contact
Details:-------------------------------------------------------
Contact me: Tal.Galili@gmail.com |  972-52-7275845
Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) |
www.r-statistics.com (English)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]

