[R] R 2.15.2 is released

Marc Schwartz marc_schwartz at me.com
Sun Nov 4 19:33:20 CET 2012


On Nov 4, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:

>> * Bert Gunter <thagre.oregba at trar.pbz> [2012-11-04 09:48:58 -0800]:
>> 
>> ?update.packages
> 
> It is not obvious to me that this is the answer to my question.
> Specifically, I have package X version 1.2.3 installed and built against
> R version 2.15.1.
> If 1.2.3 is the current latest version of X, then update.packages() will
> _not_ try to update it, but, apparently, at least for some packages, I
> do need to rebuild them against the new R version 2.15.2.
> 
> Thanks.


Take note of the 'checkBuilt' argument, which defaults to FALSE...

Regards,

Marc Schwartz


> 
>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Sam Steingold <sds at gnu.org> wrote:
>>> I have some packages installed using install.packages().
>>> Do I need to reinstall them?
>>> 
>>> https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=294&aid=2224&group_id=61
>>>   Not a bug: This only happens under the circumstance of a Matrix
>>>   package installation *not* matching your R installation. In other
>>>   words: One way to fix your problem is to re install the Matrix
>>>   package in the version of R you are using.
>>> 
>>> So, will the bug reappear now?




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