[R] Upgrading an installation of R

Kenneth Cabrera krcabrer at epm.net.co
Sun Mar 3 08:01:00 CET 2002



ggrothendieck at yifan.net wrote:

> I have installed R 1.4.0 on Windows 2000 and would like  to
> upgrade to the newest version of R.  I am scared of messing
> this up badly and would like to know if I should:
>
> - uninstall my current version first, or
> - just install the newer version without uninstalling
> the current version
>
> Do either of these work?  If both work, which is
> preferable? Will I have to reinstall various
> packages that I previously installed on 1.4.0?
>

When I upgrade R, y make the second option, because
sometimes there are new bugs on the new version, or
some of my old functions don't work on the new version
for one reason or another...either way I install the new version
on a different place (usually the setup installs it on a new directory
rw1041) so there are independent.

And later if you want to delete the old version it is very easy...
Just delete the directory and the links and/or the shortcuts to
the Rgui.exe program. R is a very clean program (no register stuff... )

And yes... you must reinstall the packages, but I make
a copy of the \library directory to the new one... and then
I use the upgrade.package() function to get the latest
pre compiled packages.


Hope this will help.



>
> I tried:
> - the FAQ
> - ?install and help.search("install") from R
> - searching on the word "install" on the site:
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/search.html
>
> but the first two came up empty and the last
> gave literally thousands of hits.
>
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