Re: [Rd] problem with 'install.packages'

2008-03-25 Thread Tony Plate
I'm also interested in a solution to this problem of how to update R packages without disturbing sessions that may be using them. For S-PLUS I've been successfully using a system that always creates a new directory for an update of a library, eg., there could be multiple directories mylib.c0, m

Re: [Rd] problem with 'install.packages'

2008-03-23 Thread Uwe Ligges
Spencer Graves wrote: > Hi, All: > > Is there a way to identify whether any users are using a > particular package in a shared network R installation? > > I ask, because we have such a multiple-user installation and when > I tried to install a package using Rgui that was in use by

[Rd] problem with 'install.packages'

2008-03-23 Thread Spencer Graves
Hi, All: Is there a way to identify whether any users are using a particular package in a shared network R installation? I ask, because we have such a multiple-user installation and when I tried to install a package using Rgui that was in use by Rterm on a single-user installatio