On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Sam Steingold <s...@gnu.org> wrote: >> * Bert Gunter <thagre.ore...@trar.pbz> [2012-11-04 09:48:58 -0800]: >> >> ?update.packages > > It is not obvious to me that this is the answer to my question. > Specifically, I have package X version 1.2.3 installed and built against > R version 2.15.1. > If 1.2.3 is the current latest version of X, then update.packages() will > _not_ try to update it, but, apparently, at least for some packages, I > do need to rebuild them against the new R version 2.15.2. >
If I remember correctly (and I may well not) it's somewhat OS dependent, with OS X being rather strict about package updates (2.15.1 not being so compatible with 2.15.2) while linuxen are nicer about it. Certainly packages with significant compiled code (like Matrix) are more prone to versioning mis-matches. Michael ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
