[R-SIG-Mac] R 2.15.2

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 27/10/2012 17:25, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On 27/10/2012 17:10, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I see that R 2.15.2 is now available for the Mac. In some of the
>> other  R mail-lists people have mentioned having to reinstall packages
>> when
> they upgraded to 2.15.2. Is this likely to be the case or should most
> packages that worked worked with 2.15.1 still work?
>
> There are people posting misinformation ....
>
> There is no known need to reinstall CRAN packages for R 2.15.2 from R
> 2.15.0.  However, there are packages which have newest versions
> depending on R >= 2.15.2, and others depending on new versions of BioC
> packages which are available in BioC 2.11, which is the default in R
> 2.15.2 (as distinct from BioC 2.10 in R 2.15.[01]).  So I would always
> suggest using update.packages() after updating R.

Of course *binary* versions of such packages will only become available 
once the bots are updated to R 2.15.2.  But in a new feature in 2.15.2:

 > install.packages('demography')

   There is a binary version available (and will be installed) but the
   source version is later:
            binary source
demography   1.13   1.14

so you do get told about this.

>
>
>
>> Thanks for any insight.
>>
>> -Roy M.
>>
>>
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