[R] Fw: Problems with old version of R

[Stefan Grosse]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:18:17 -0400 Dimitri Liakhovitski
<ld7631 at gmail.com> wrote:

DL> You don't have to uninstall the old version. Just install the new
DL> version. What I do then - I manually copy (in Windows Explorer) all
DL> the packages from the folder library that is under your old R
DL> version into the folder library under the new R version. And then I
DL> open the new R version and run update packages.

Its even simpler than this. [On windows] You can install the new R over
the old in the very same folder. Then run update.packages(checkBuilt=T)
and you have upgraded the whole R suite.

No need to manually copy anything.

Cheers
Stefan