Shane Shane How up-to-date is the solution that has been used here? I used it recently and works great. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Gregor Thomas k 16 16 gold badges silver badges bronze badges.
Joris Meys Joris Meys k 27 27 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Prasad : Thx. The answer is a bit outdated though, R 2. So all you have to do now is make sure you find that library and link to it, if that didn't happen by itself.
DanielKrizian Look at the default in the internal object. In my case, it points back to the R installation folder if unchanged which I particularly dislike, but well — Joris Meys. If you are using Windows, you might want to use the installr package: install. Josh O'Brien k 25 25 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. What about packages installed through github?
It should be mentioned that this is for Windows. Two quick suggestions: Use Gabor's batchfiles which are said to comprise tools helping with e.
Dirk Eddelbuettel Dirk Eddelbuettel k 54 54 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. I wonder if transferring packages from, say, R 2. Or will everything be fine as long as you do a update. I have been doing this for quite a while and have not had problems. R is typically "forward compatible". I also usually just copy my Library folder to my new installation and run update.
It seems to work fine. An optional install folder however is much more elegant. My preferred method on Windows upgrading 2. Start R 2. Serban Tanasa 3, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 44 44 bronze badges. Kevin Wright Kevin Wright 2, 21 21 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. Get names of packages in previous R version old.
For each package p in previous version Only if p is not already installed if! The if statement makes sure that a package is not installed if It's already installed in the new R version, or Has been installed as a dependency from a package installed in a previous iteration of the for loop. Raffaele Vacca Raffaele Vacca 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. This solved my issue, thanks!
This question might sound a little dumb, but can I delete old libraries? Tal Galili Tal Galili 23k 41 41 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. For the most recent versions of R, Tal has a package called installr which automates this process currently only on Windows r-statistics. Open R and type the following in the console if you want to check which is the installation path.
In this case the output shows that we have installed the R version 4. You can have additional information about the version just typing R. By default , R will show the graphic user interface in the language of your operating system.
To override this behavior and change the language permanently you can follow this steps:. Home » Introduction » How to install R? How to install R? Introduction to R. Hi, I have used installr for update 3.
It works fine. Thank you! I followed these instructions got 3. Backed up to 3. Essentially I am crippled and cannot continue to work. Any suggestions on how to recover would be appreciated. Very straightforward. No issues at all. I think the initial problems I had the previous times I tried doing this had to do with my Internet connection.
Error is in italian as I had a version in italian. You can either try again, or switch to a different mirror. There is a newer version of R for you to download! You are using R version: 2. I am wondering if there is a way to automate this process of updating R or adding a function to do so , e.
This question is partially due to the fact that I will probably forget about this package and its utility not because of its relevance, of course! I like it. Nice idea. I will add this to the suggestions on my TODO list and will look into implementing it in future releases. Even when I want to manually edit it I have to open notepad application as an administrator and then open Rprofile. The two later stages do require admin privileges.
Also, the copying of packages assumes you wish to move them from the default library folder of the old R to the one of the new R. You can also only use the install. R function and take care of the package folders on your own. I am very new to R and installed v2. Thank for putting this together. Took me a little time to work thru some issues, but was able to update to v3. Now I am working on getting my database setup. Thank You for putting this package together and providing support.
Thank you for saying a good word, you brought a smile to my face. Hi Guillermo, Could you please send me relevant links for me to better understand your question? Hi Tal, Thank you for this wonderful package. The current latest version of R is 3. The one I have installed on my computer is 2. Is there a way to upgrade to 2. I want to to move to 2. I am not sure if there is enough package support for 3. Hi Tal, It is very interesting to know about the package. I have R version 1.
I wanted to upgrade the R version to the latest, but I am afraid my older self-written programs will not run successfully after the upgrade. Pls advice me accordingly. Hello Yusuf, Well, I am not sure if installr will work on R version 1. In your case I would suggest manually download and install the newer version of R, and whenever you would see you are missing a package you had to re-install it.
Thank you once again!! With regards, Tal. Thank you for this Tal — really useful! I put off upgrading R because of the hassle! Now I can do ity easily.
I was using RStudio on Windows7 64bit, and the process works fine. Thanks for the package. It appears to have a wierd interaction with bioconductor packages, which causes the bioconductor package to get confused about the version.
I used installr to upgrade from 3. After that, the Bioconductor install script biocLite continually failed with version complaints. I installed a clean version of 3. Thank you for the report Bill. If you happen to find out why that is, I would be happy to know about it. Two shortcomings not bugs I had, unless I made a mistake, was that the RProfile.
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