Hello, The R version on my system is R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22). I have previously installed all the desired packages for my work - and they have been working fine. However, somebody played with my system and removed almost all the stuff. I am installing the packages again. But I am finding some packages (such as, sp, rgdal, raster, etc) hard to install. Some of the error messages indicate that 2.8.1 is old and that the package requires 2.10.0. I have tried to upgrade to 2.10.0 or to the newest release but without luck. I am now considering reinstalling R ( and then reinstall all the removed packages). Could you please advise if this has any negative implications the R package or if I have any better option as to handle this problem? Thanks for your inputs Best Ogbos [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
this is FAQ 2.8 http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rw-FAQ.html#What_0027s-the-best-way-to-upgrade_003f hth Am 05.10.2010 15:00, schrieb ogbos okike:> Hello, > The R version on my system is R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22). I have > previously installed all the desired packages for my work - and they have > been working fine. However, somebody played with my system and removed > almost all the stuff. I am installing the packages again. > > But I am finding some packages (such as, sp, rgdal, raster, etc) hard to > install. Some of the error messages indicate that 2.8.1 is old and that the > package requires 2.10.0. > > I have tried to upgrade to 2.10.0 or to the newest release but without luck. > I am now considering reinstalling R ( and then reinstall all the removed > packages). > > Could you please advise if this has any negative implications the R package > or if I have any better option as to handle this problem? > > Thanks for your inputs > Best > Ogbos > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.-- Eik Vettorazzi Institut f?r Medizinische Biometrie und Epidemiologie Universit?tsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf Martinistr. 52 20246 Hamburg T ++49/40/7410-58243 F ++49/40/7410-57790
On 05/10/2010 9:00 AM, ogbos okike wrote:> Hello, > The R version on my system is R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22). I have > previously installed all the desired packages for my work - and they have > been working fine. However, somebody played with my system and removed > almost all the stuff. I am installing the packages again. > > But I am finding some packages (such as, sp, rgdal, raster, etc) hard to > install. Some of the error messages indicate that 2.8.1 is old and that the > package requires 2.10.0. > > I have tried to upgrade to 2.10.0 or to the newest release but without luck. > I am now considering reinstalling R ( and then reinstall all the removed > packages). > > Could you please advise if this has any negative implications the R package > or if I have any better option as to handle this problem?I would install the current release of R. Version 2.8.1 is quite old, and likely nobody will support you on it. You can get old copies of packages from the CRAN archives <http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/> if you do decide to stick with an obsolete version, but I don't know a simple way to find the best combination of package versions for 2.8.1. Duncan Murdoch