[R] Upgrading

[Petr Pikal]

Hi

as the addition to Thomas's answer.

On 19 Dec 2006 at 15:20, Thomas Lumley wrote:

Date sent:      	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:20:18 -0800 (PST)
From:           	Thomas Lumley <tlumley at u.washington.edu>
To:             	DEEPANKAR BASU <basu.15 at osu.edu>
Copies to:      	R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject:        	Re: [R] Upgrading

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, DEEPANKAR BASU wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > As per Thomas' advice, I upgraded R by using "update.packages()" and
> > got the following warning messages:
> 
> That was not my advice on how to upgrade. update.packages() updates
> the packages. You need to download a new version of R itself.  You
> will then need to update or reinstall the packages. The warning
> messages are because you are updating to versions of the packages that
> do not run on your old version of R.

<snip>

> >
> > Another question: what is the command for renaming an existing
> > variable?

e.g. if the variable is in data frame

names(your.data)[position.of.old.column.name] <- "new.column.name"
BTW, reading et least some docummentation could help you a lot with 
these issues.

HTH
Petr


> >
> > Thanks.
> > Deepankar
> >
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> Thomas Lumley			Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics
> tlumley at u.washington.edu	University of Washington, Seattle
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Petr Pikal
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