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On 11/20/02 18:36, TyagiAnupam at aol.com wrote:>How do I update to a new version of R on Linux without goingthrough a new installation? Most kinds of Linux use some sort of binary package like rpm. Several of those are available on CRAN, specifially http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux If you can do that, "going through" sounds harsh. You download the rpm file and give one command, such as rpm -Uvh r-base...rpm and you are done. If you have some version of Linux other than Debian, Mandrake, RedHat, or Suse, then you need to compile R from the source, as you would do on Unix.>How do I update packages?Start R as root and type update.packages() See the help about update.packages for the various options. -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania R page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
Thanks for the info. Did not mean to sound harsh at all, R is an absolute pleasure to install and use---didn't think that "going through" is associated primarily with a negative emotion. Did a quick check on "going through" in poetry to see nuances of the phrase---you are right, except "going through life". Thanks for the reply. In a message dated 11/20/02 7:33:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, baron at cattell.psych.upenn.edu writes:> >How do I update to a new version of R on Linux without going > through a new installation? > > Most kinds of Linux use some sort of binary package like rpm. > Several of those are available on CRAN, specifially > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux > > If you can do that, "going through" sounds harsh.-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20021120/d99cf20f/attachment.html