Hey Duncan,
Thank so much for the site. Quite helpful. Containing everything and
informing me that raster has got no older version.
I have also installed the new R version and I am fine.
Regards
Ogbos
On 5 October 2010 15:11, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 05/10/2010 9:00 AM, ogbos okike wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> The R version on my  system is R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22).  I have
>> previously installed all the desired packages  for my work - and they have
>> been working fine. However, somebody played with my system and removed
>> almost all the stuff. I am installing the packages again.
>>
>> But I am finding some packages (such as, sp, rgdal, raster, etc) hard to
>> install. Some of the error messages indicate that 2.8.1 is old and that
>> the
>> package requires 2.10.0.
>>
>> I have tried to upgrade to 2.10.0 or to the newest release but without
>> luck.
>> I am now considering reinstalling R ( and then reinstall all the removed
>> packages).
>>
>> Could you please advise if  this has any negative implications the R
>> package
>> or if I have any better option as to handle this problem?
>>
>
>
> I would install the current release of R.  Version 2.8.1 is quite old, and
> likely nobody will support you on it.
>
> You can get old copies of packages from the CRAN archives <
> http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/> if you do decide to stick
> with an obsolete version, but I don't know a simple way to find the best
> combination of package versions for 2.8.1.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>

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