Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-24 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 21:14 -0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Josh and all, > > > I think .Rprofile is something you have to create yourself > No, it is a file on Linux OS No, it isn't! It doesn't mysteriously appear on any system. You create it to personalise certain aspects of your use of R an

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-17 Thread csrabak
Em 16/11/2010 04:55, Tal Galili escreveu: Hello Cesar, Thank you for the reply. Another question I have is if it is possible to detect the library path of an old R install, from the terminal of the new R install. Cheers, Tal, An at large reply would be no. The old install can be in a complet

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-15 Thread Tal Galili
Hello Cesar, Thank you for the reply. Another question I have is if it is possible to detect the library path of an old R install, from the terminal of the new R install. Cheers, Tal Contact Details:--- Contact me: tal.gal...@g

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-15 Thread csrabak
Em 14/11/2010 20:42, csrabak escreveu: Em 14/11/2010 18:24, Tal Galili escreveu: Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-15 Thread John C Frain
Tal My main use of R now is on Windows 7. As explained I always retain at least one previous version on windows 7 PCs. My upgrade is done as follows - 1) Download and install the binary install program for R and install. 2) Rename the library directory (default - C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.0patc

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread csrabak
Em 14/11/2010 18:24, Tal Galili escreveu: Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Tal Galili
fick > To: r-help@r-project.org > Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM > Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R > > update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized > .Rprofile file and just > > update from linux repos, or build from source > > mv .Rprof

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 11:19:38 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R Hi Stephen, I think .Rprofile is something you have to create yourself. It is not needed, but you can create it and then put your customizations in it (just put it in the same directory as the dir

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread stephen sefick
> To: r-help@r-project.org > Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM > Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R > > update.packages has always worked well for me.  I have a customized > .Rprofile file and just > > update from linux repos, or build from source > > mv .Rprofile

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Joshua Wiley
L > > > > - Original Message > From: stephen sefick > To: r-help@r-project.org > Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM > Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R > > update.packages has always worked well for me.  I have a customized > .Rprofile file and just > >

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Stephen Liu
n sefick To: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 4:19:15 AM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Stephen Liu
ubject: Re: [R] About upgrade R wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges : > Upg

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Tal Galili
Hi John, thank you for that input. It could be that the code I wrote here: http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/ Should be updated so every time you install a new R version, you run the code for it to: 1) copy all packages from t

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread stephen sefick
update.packages has always worked well for me. I have a customized .Rprofile file and just update from linux repos, or build from source mv .Rprofile Rprofile update all packages mv Rprofile .Rprofile It only takes a couple of minutes and everything is up I like being in control of what happ

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread John C Frain
The current method allows one to easily retain several versions working in parallel. This particularly important if some package is not available in the new version. A few years ago there were problems such as these during a major overhaul of the rmetrics group of packages. My current practice is t

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 14.11.2010 17:59, Ajay Ohri wrote: wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying At least I do not like the idea: If I just want to try a beta version, I do not want that everything is updated and I can't s

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Ajay Ohri
wont it make more common sense to make updating packages also as part of every base version install BY Default.. just saying Websites- http://decisionstats.com http://dudeofdata.com Linkedin- www.linkedin.com/in/ajayohri 2010/11/14 Uwe Ligges : > Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Tal Galili
t; > update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) > > In the worst case I just reinstall abovementioned packages. Any further > advice > before I start? > > Thanks > > B.R. > Stephen L > > > > > > - Original Message ---- > From: Uwe Ligges > To: Step

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Stephen Liu
Liu Cc: r-help@r-project.org Sent: Sun, November 14, 2010 11:03:57 PM Subject: Re: [R] About upgrade R Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBu

Re: [R] About upgrade R

2010-11-14 Thread Uwe Ligges
Upgrading is mentioned in the FAQs / R for Windows FAQs. If you have your additionally installed packages in a separate library (not the R base library) you can simply run update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) If not ... Uwe Ligges On 14.11.2010 15:51, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi all, Win 7 64-bit