Re: [R] Text showing when R is launched

2023-10-11 Thread Rui Barradas
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Re: [R] Problem with compatible library versions

2023-10-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
No. In 10 years you may have different hardware and a different OS, so that the old R and old packages won't run on the new hardware or produce different results. This may even happen for some sort of containers and virtualizations. To be really safe, you ideally need to keep the whole syste

Re: [R] Problem with compatible library versions

2023-10-11 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Is that a method where a program that I write today would still run without changes in 10 years? Tim -Original Message- From: R-help On Behalf Of Richard O'Keefe Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2023 8:08 AM To: Uwe Ligges Cc: r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Problem with compatible li

Re: [R] Problem with compatible library versions

2023-10-11 Thread Richard O'Keefe
There is a fairly straightforward way to load older versions of packages, and that is to use the 'groundhog' package. As the first sentence of https://groundhogr.com/ puts it: Make your R scripts reproducible by replacing library(pkg) with groundhog.library(pkg, date). pkg can be a vector of

Re: [R] Problem with compatible library versions

2023-10-11 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 10.10.2023 17:34, Sabine Braun wrote: On the github website I have reported several bugs with new versions of the tidyverse group (probably dplyr) which prevent me from using R normally. I wanted to go back to older versions but this seems not bo be easy. I downloaded R 4.1.2. and Rtools 40