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

[Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal]

I am not getting this.   In the drop down box where it usually defaults to CRAN (binaries)  what do I select.  I tried pasting in exactly what u=you said and don't get anything back.

Thanks for any help.

-Roy


> On Apr 23, 2017, at 5:16 PM, 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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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
***Note new street address***
110 McAllister Way
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Phone: (831)-420-3666
Fax: (831) 420-3980
e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn at noaa.gov www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/

"Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
"From those who have been given much, much will be expected" 
"the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK Jr.