I have noticed a behavior where if I update a package with dependencies, sometimes it fails and the package that was outdated but installed is no longer installed. Once I run install.packages again, it usually seems to work just fine. I have not noticed that base packages are more susceptible to this than contributed packages. -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On January 9, 2017 4:47:16 PM PST, Chris <chris.bar...@barkerstats.com> wrote: >thx. when I let R installed to "my documents" (which is basically world >read/writable) not all dependent packages download/install with the >library. >When R tells me it can't find the dependent librariies, I manually >download and install. > >Is that typical behaviour for R? Chris Barker, Ph.D. >Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics - UIC-SPH >and >President and Owner >Statistical Planning and Analysis Services, Inc. >www.barkerstats.com >415 609 7473 >skype: barkerstats > > > >On Monday, January 9, 2017 4:41 PM, Jeff Newmiller ><jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote: > > >Your (updated) personal library should receive any updated versions of >base packages that were originally installed with R. The outdated >packages in the system library tend to become irrelevant over time with >normal use. It is possible to update them but for most people fixing >that is not worth the risk of breaking permissions on your personal >library. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
