R help - Mar 2008 - Updating packages from one hard-drive to another, after upgrade of R

The CPU on my computer 'died' and I have had to purchase a new 
computer. I have just installed v 2.6.2. My previous computer had v 
2.5.1 and a large number of files in the library folder. These files 
have been copied to a partition on my new hard drive, along with the 
old R installation.

Can I just copy all the folders/files in the old library to the new 
v2.6.2 library or do the packages need to be downloaded again? There 
are quite a number of folders so it would be time-consuming to have 
to do a fresh download.

Any assistance is appreciated,

Bob

Bob,

You can copy the files from the packages to your new computer. Then run
update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE).

That should do.

HTH,

Thierry


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Namens Bob Green
Verzonden: woensdag 5 maart 2008 15:07
Aan: r-help op r-project.org
Onderwerp: [R] Updating packages from one hard-drive to another,after
upgrade of R


The CPU on my computer 'died' and I have had to purchase a new 
computer. I have just installed v 2.6.2. My previous computer had v 
2.5.1 and a large number of files in the library folder. These files 
have been copied to a partition on my new hard drive, along with the 
old R installation.

Can I just copy all the folders/files in the old library to the new 
v2.6.2 library or do the packages need to be downloaded again? There 
are quite a number of folders so it would be time-consuming to have 
to do a fresh download.

Any assistance is appreciated,

Bob

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See ?.libPaths for info on setting the location of your libraries.
If you do want to copy them the copydir.bat utility in
 batchfiles.googlecode.com
can do that.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Bob Green <bgreen at dyson.brisnet.org.au>
wrote:
>
> The CPU on my computer 'died' and I have had to purchase a new
> computer. I have just installed v 2.6.2. My previous computer had v
> 2.5.1 and a large number of files in the library folder. These files
> have been copied to a partition on my new hard drive, along with the
> old R installation.
>
> Can I just copy all the folders/files in the old library to the new
> v2.6.2 library or do the packages need to be downloaded again? There
> are quite a number of folders so it would be time-consuming to have
> to do a fresh download.
>
> Any assistance is appreciated,
>
> Bob
>
> ______________________________________________
> 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.
>