Looked at several posts and the installtions docs and still not clear.? If I compile source codes and then somewhere down the line add a new package, then I have to recompile my entire installation, correct?? Seems like this is the sentiment of the emails I read.
In general, you only need to recompile changed packages if you are staying with the same version of R (to the best of my knowledge). For changes in R, you might need to recompile everything, depending on the size of the change in R and your OS. Things might be slightly different if you are changing the base packages: I wouldn't know -- I've never done so... Michael On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Scott Raynaud <scott.raynaud at yahoo.com> wrote:> Looked at several posts and the installtions docs and still not clear. > If I compile source codes and then somewhere down the line add > a new package, then I have to recompile my entire installation, > correct?? Seems like this is the sentiment of the emails I read. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
On 23.01.2012 16:13, Scott Raynaud wrote:> Looked at several posts and the installtions docs and still not clear. > If I compile source codesWhich "source codes"? R itself? A package? Something else? Byte-compile?> and then somewhere down the line add > a new package,What does "add" mean? Add to your code? To your version of R? If so, into which library? Have you had that package before or is it new?> then I have to recompile my entire installation,Again, which installation? R? A package? If packages: What is the hierarchy of dependencies? Uwe Ligges> correct? Seems like this is the sentiment of the emails I read. > > ______________________________________________ > 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.