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.mendelss...@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 <rip...@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.mendelss...@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, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk >> Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, University of Oxford > > ********************** > "The contents of this message do not reflect any position of the U.S. > Government or NOAA." > ********************** > 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.mendelss...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac