R help - May 2007 - How to install previous packages after upgrading to R 2.5.0?

Hello,




I have just upgraded from R-2.4.1 to R-2.5.0 for Windows.

I had installed a large number of add-on packages under 2.4.1. Is there an easy
way to install (or load, if that's the easier way) those packages under
2.5.0, without having to install each package by hand?

Thanks,
Jeff

On 02/05/2007 5:12 PM, Jeffrey Wood wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have just upgraded from R-2.4.1 to R-2.5.0 for Windows.
> 
> I had installed a large number of add-on packages under 2.4.1. Is there an
easy way to install (or load, if that's the easier way) those packages under
2.5.0, without having to install each package by hand?
I'm not sure if this counts as installing "by hand", but (assuming
you
have a network connection) you can use the menu system to see the list 
of CRAN packages, and install the ones you want from there.  If you have 
some of your own non-CRAN packages, "Install package from local .zip 
file" allows multiple files to be selected and installed.

The only combination that's not so easy is installing from source 
.tar.gz files, but a shell command to loop over *.tar.gz could probably 
be written.

Duncan Murdoch

Rename the library subdirectory in your new installation to something
like library.new.  Copy the library subdirectory in the old
distribution to the new installation.  Copy the contents of the
renamed library.new to the the directory copied from the old
distribution.  You should then start your new R and update packages
from the menu.  Check and ensure that you have not enabled automatic
loading of packages in /etc/Rprofile.site (eg to run Sciviews or
similar)  For further information see the Windows FAQ.

Regards
John Frain

On 02/05/07, Jeffrey Wood <jephwood at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
>
> I have just upgraded from R-2.4.1 to R-2.5.0 for Windows.
>
> I had installed a large number of add-on packages under 2.4.1. Is there an
easy way to install (or load, if that's the easier way) those packages under
2.5.0, without having to install each package by hand?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
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On 5/2/07, Jeffrey Wood <jephwood at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
>
> I have just upgraded from R-2.4.1 to R-2.5.0 for Windows.
>
> I had installed a large number of add-on packages under 2.4.1. Is there an
easy way to install (or load, if that's the easier way) those packages under
2.5.0, without having to install each package by hand?
This was just discussed in another thread but batchfiles on CRAN (which is
a collection of Windows XP batch files, not an R package) contains
movedir.bat and copydir.bat that will move or copy your packages from
one version of R to another.  See the home page:

   http://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/

which gives links to the README where its explained and to the CRAN
download area from where you can download it.

movedir.bat is very fast (only a few seconds) but your packages will then
only reside in the new version of R.  copydir.bat is slower but makes
copies rather than moving the packages.  Neither will overwrite anything
so they are both pretty safe to use.

I use a script, i.e., place a few lines of R code in a file:

## create a vector of package names
my.packages <- c('pkgname1','pkgname2','pkgname3')

## install them (check whether other args to install.packages() need 
to be specified)
install.packages(pkgs=my.packages)

and then source the script. Keep the script around, then on every 
upgrade to R, just source it again.

-Don

At 2:12 PM -0700 5/2/07, Jeffrey Wood wrote:
>Hello,
>
>
>
>
>I have just upgraded from R-2.4.1 to R-2.5.0 for Windows.
>
>I had installed a large number of add-on packages under 2.4.1. Is 
>there an easy way to install (or load, if that's the easier way) 
>those packages under 2.5.0, without having to install each package 
>by hand?
>
>Thanks,
>Jeff
>
>______________________________________________
>R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch 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.

-- 
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Don MacQueen
Environmental Protection Department
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA, USA