Re: [R] Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages

2015-04-09 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 09.04.2015 23:16, John C Frain wrote: My understanding is that the packages installed with the windows installer were only updated by installing a new version of R or the patched install file for the current version. If this is the case you you do not need to be concerned about updates to t

Re: [R] Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages

2015-04-09 Thread John C Frain
My understanding is that the packages installed with the windows installer were only updated by installing a new version of R or the patched install file for the current version. If this is the case you you do not need to be concerned about updates to these packages. Perhaps some one wiser that I

Re: [R] Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages

2015-04-09 Thread Jeff Newmiller
John's answer is correct but you might like one of the following summaries better. The short (baby bear) answer is no. A longer (papa bear) answer is that anything is possible if you dig deep enough. But the just-right (mama bear) answer is that you don't need to worry about it since users shou

Re: [R] Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages

2015-04-09 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Elliot Joel Bernstein wrote: > I am trying to install R for Windows, but when I use the installer provided > on CRAN, a number of third-party packages are installed by default (i.e. > lattice, Matrix, codetools, etc.). If R is installed with administrator > privile

[R] Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages

2015-04-09 Thread Elliot Joel Bernstein
I am trying to install R for Windows, but when I use the installer provided on CRAN, a number of third-party packages are installed by default (i.e. lattice, Matrix, codetools, etc.). If R is installed with administrator privileges, so it's available for all users, non-administrators can't update t