From rossini@u.washington.edu  Thu May 31 17:52:54 2001
From: rossini@u.washington.edu (A.J. Rossini)
Date: 31 May 2001 09:52:54 -0700
Subject: [Rd] R-1.2.3: a small suggestion (PR#961)
In-Reply-To: ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk's message of "Thu, 31 May 2001 18:07:23 +0200 (MET DST)"
References: <200105311607.SAA21389@pubhealth.ku.dk>
Message-ID: <87lmnde9zt.fsf@jeeves.blindglobe.net>

>>>>> "r" == ripley  <ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

    r> There is a serious problem with that. All the user-installed
    r> packages in /usr/local/lib/R-1.2.3/library disappear from view
    r> on upgrade.  They would need to be migrated.

One thought would be to emulate XEmacs in this regard -- lisp packages
are in equivalent of /usr/local/lib/R, while version-specific code is
in the equivalent of /usr/local/lib/R-version.

best,
-tony

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[Rd] R-1.2.3: a small suggestion (PR#961)
A.J. Rossini