[R] Upgrade 'R'

[Keith Jewell]

As possible help to others, and also as a request for comments on how I 
might do things better, I describe how I've recently altered my system to 
handle this.

I'm on a Windows Server 2003 network and the R installation is accessible to 
many others. Everyone has "read" access to all installation files, but only 
I have write access. I do _not_ have Administrator privileges on the server, 
so I cannot make/change registry entries.

R versions are in an R folder tree, which also holds the version independent 
library folder.

//Server02/stats/R
//Server02/stats/R/R-2.7.0
//Server02/stats/R/R-2.7.1
//Server02/stats/R/R-2.7.1pat
//Server02/stats/R/R-2.7.2
   :
//Server02/stats/R/library

In each version I have edited /etc/Rprofile.site to include the line
 .libPaths("//Server02/stats/R/library")

The "default" libraries (base, boot, class...) are installed into the 
relevant version specific .../R-n.n.n/library/ folder by the windows 
installer program (e.g. R-2.7.2-win32.exe).
Occasionaly, and after installing a new R-version,  I update all the 
downloaded libraries in the version independent //Server02/stats/R/library/ 
folder with a simple update.packages().

HTH. Comments welcome.

Keith Jewell
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"Leon Yee" <yee.leon at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:48BCA225.7060106 at gmail.com...
> Hello, Kevin
>
>    You can get some hints by browsing in this mailist with the subject of 
> " Upgrading R means I lose my packages", which were posted several days 
> ago.
>
> HTH
>
> Leon
>
>
> rkevinburton at charter.net wrote:
>> More and more I am getting warnings from packages that I install that the 
>> package was built with 2.7.2 (I am running 2.7.1). I would like to 
>> upgrade but don't want to loose all of the packages that I have installed 
>> and the settings. Is there a way to just "upgrade" without uninstalling 
>> and reinstalling 'R'?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kevin