[R] Windows Installation Without Third-Party Packages

[Jeff Newmiller]

I would suggest that the scenario suggested by Peter is exactly as it should be... with the user fully in charge of which packages they use. A simple update can correct any version "inversion" if it occurs, and the user need not blame the sysadmin if their scripts stop working because of a system update.
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On April 9, 2015 2:53:29 PM PDT, peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09 Apr 2015, at 23:26 , Uwe Ligges
><ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 09.04.2015 23:16, John C Frain wrote:
>>> My understanding is that the packages installed with the windows
>installer
>>> were only updated by installing a new version of R or the  patched
>install
>>> file for the current version. If this is the case you you do not
>need to be
>>> concerned about updates to these packages. Perhaps some one wiser
>that I
>>> can confirm if my assumption is right or wrong.
>> 
>> 
>> No, updates of such recommended packages may be available between R
>releases. But individual users can install new versions using
>install.packages() into their private libraries, e.g. those that are
>first on the search path (given by .libPaths()) so that they are loaded
>first.
>
>However, little care is needed since the version in a private library
>may override the system one even after an R upgrade has updated it;
>i.e. an older version can end up in front of a newer one, which may
>cause some confusion.
>
>> 
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> John C Frain
>>> 3 Aranleigh Park
>>> Rathfarnham
>>> Dublin 14
>>> Ireland
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>>> mailto:frainj at tcd.ie
>>> mailto:frainj at gmail.com
>>> 
>>> On 9 April 2015 at 14:42, Elliot Joel Bernstein <ejb6 at cornell.edu>
>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I am trying to install R for Windows, but when I use the installer
>provided
>>>> on CRAN, a number of third-party packages are installed by default
>(i.e.
>>>> lattice, Matrix, codetools, etc.). If R is installed with
>administrator
>>>> privileges, so it's available for all users, non-administrators
>can't
>>>> update those packages. Is there any way to just install R without
>any
>>>> third-party packages, and let individual users install the packages
>they
>>>> want?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> - Elliot
>>>> 
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