[R-SIG-Mac] R3.4.0 Upgrade from R3.3.3

[peter dalgaard]

Missed that one, Simon. Usually I go straight for the Terminal or the Rstudio embedding. Do we have a command line variant of this already? 

-pd

> On 24 Apr 2017, at 02:16 , Simon Urbanek <simon.urbanek at r-project.org> wrote:
> 
> Note that if you use R.app and standard locations you can simply select "Select packages from R 3.3" in the package installer search box and hit Install Selected.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2017, at 10:47 AM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks to all, particularly the script to aid in the update.  In the past when I just copied,  I had problems with some packages.
>> 
>> -Roy
>> 
>>> On Apr 23, 2017, at 7:09 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Note that at the moment there are many missing binary packages for 3.4.0, and BioC will update all their versions when BioC 3.5 is released this coming week.  So I would wait a few days before updating, especially if you prefer to use binary packages.
>>> 
>>>> nrow(available.packages(, type="source"))
>>> [1] 10477
>>>> nrow(available.packages(, type="binary"))
>>> [1] 9779
>>> 
>>> whereas for 3.3.3 10356 are available.
>>> 
>>> On 23/04/2017 09:35, peter dalgaard wrote:
>>>> Yes, especially this time, since the toolchain has been updated.
>>>> My favourite procedure for this goes like
>>>> (pkgs <- .libPaths())
>>>> (pkgs.old <- sub("3.4", "3.3", pkgs, fixed=TRUE))
>>>> (pkgs.new <- setdiff(list.files(pkgs.old), list.files(pkgs)))
>>>> Check for sanity(!), then install.packages(pkgs.new). Things may need modification if yor setup involves personalized libraries, multiple repos, etc.
>>>> Just copying the entire directory followed by update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) will overwrite packages from the installation of 3.4 and not all of those are CRAN based.
>>>> [To tell the truth, I don't usually practice what I preach. I just install the missing packages when it turns out that I need them...]
>>>> -pd
>>>>> On 23 Apr 2017, at 05:49 , Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn at noaa.gov> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I keep forgetting.  So if I jump from R3.3.3 to R3.4.0 is it necessary (or at least advisable) to re-install packages?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Roy
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>>> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford
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